Surveying Prison Environments

SURVEYING PRISON ENVIRONMENTS WILLIAM G. SAYLOR OFFICE OF RESEARCH FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS There are primarily two approaches to measuring organizational properties such as climates: the subjective or psychological approach and the objective or structural approach. Previous organizational climate studies have generally relied on either one approach or the other, but not both, in a single analysis. This paper advocates the use of a statistical methodology for assessing prison institution climates which makes use of both objective and subjective climate measures. The proposed methods rely on recent developments in 1)the ANCOVA model with contextual effects which separates total aggregated variable relationships into individual and organizational level components and 2) structural equation models for the simultaneous analysis of longitudinal data from several cohorts. Last updated in 1984 SURVEYING PRISON ENVIRONMENTS WILLIAM G. SAYLOR OFFICE OF RESEARCH FEDERAL BUREAU OF PRISONS