The Performance of Privately Operated Prisons: A Review of Research: Appendix 2

Includes bibliographic references. The authors considered evaluations of private prisons in nine states including Arizona (p. 13). The other featured states are Massachusetts, Kentucky, California, Tennesee, Louisiana, New Mexico, Florida, and Washington. The BOP study is also published in Private Prisons in the United States: An Assessment of Current Practice (Boston, MA: Abt Associates)

Prison crowding research reexamined

Federal Bureau of Prisons or the Department of Justice. Dramatic increases in the United States ' inmate population has raised new concerns about prison crowding. Although growth in prison capacity has lagged slightly behind that of the inmate population, there is no consistent evidence that crowding is associated with mortality, morbidity (defined as clinic utilization), recidivism, violence, or other pathological behaviors. This paper reviews the major areas in which prison crowding has been examined. Conceptual, methodological, and empirical criticisms are raised concerning prison crowding and the areas of health, violence, and recidivism. The paper is divided into five sections: I. the political and social context of prison crowding research; II. ecological versus individual level differences in crowding; III. theoretical and empirical problem

Verbal Accounts And Attributions Of Social Motives

The effects of verbal accounts offered by a threatener on targets\u27 subsequent attributions of the threatener\u27s social motives was studied. Following a standardized interaction in a Prisoner\u27s Dilemma game the subjects\u27 opponent offered one of three accounts for using threats: cooperative intent, establishment of transrelational equity, or ignorance. In a fourth condition the confederate offered no account for his actions. Attributions were assessed by having subjects rate each of four responses representative of the social motives of cooperation, competition, apathy, and deceit in five different situations. It was found that the type of account had specific attributional effects. A cooperative account led to a correspondent inference of a cooperative disposition, a transrelational equity account was apparently perceived as illegitimate and led to an attribution of a deceitful motive, and an excuse of ignorance was linked with apathy. © 1983