The implications of sentence length for inmate adjustment to prison life

Elisa L. Toman, Joshua C. Cochran, John K. Cochran and William D. Bales

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2015, vol. 43, issue 6, 510-521

Abstract: Prison scholarship suggests that the structural and cultural environment of prison and dimensions individuals “import” with them into prison have salient implications for inmate adjustment to incarceration. Theoretical and empirical analyses of inmate adjustment to prison life, however, have paid limited attention to sentencing characteristics like prison sentence length. This paper presents theoretical arguments that suggest sentence length likely influences inmate adjustment, and proposes that mixed effects in prior studies may be attributed to analyses that do not account for nonlinearities and conditional effects.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2015.11.002

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