The psycho-social environment of prisons and its relationship to recidivism

The Psycho-Social Environment (PSE) of Prisons and Its Relationship to Recidivism

The relationship of social support and self-esteem with recidivism among prisoners

Background and purposes: Social capital and Continuing source of support among the theories that explain the social harms by combining theories of criminology. Evaluate the relationship between social capital and self-esteem and impact on recidivism in prisoners residing in the Prison is the purpose of this study. Materials and methods In this cross-sectional study, 72 male prison inmates in...

nature- therapy, a new approach in the rehabilitative system of prison

 Abstract: It has been about three decades that various nature-therapy programs are applied as a new modified approach in some countries (i.e. USA, United kingdom and Canada). Numerous experimental studies approve the success of these programs in regard to some purposes like reduction of recidivism rate or reintegration. So that one can say that nature-therapy is about to convert to a successfu...

Relationship between Social Capital and Crime (Case study: Prisoners of Tehran Prisons)

Social capital, due to its content lies in the social damage's realm. Considering the mutual effects therein, the objective here is to assess the correlation between social capital with identifying the correlation between social capital and crimes among convicted young prisoners in Greater Tehran prison. The method adopted in this study is of survey type by applying a random sample of 190 priso...

Impact on the psychotic vulnerability of the therapeutic approachin the Prison Psychiatric Hospital in Seville (Spain).

OBJECTIVES to analyze changes in psychotic vulnerability following the implementation of a program of prison psychiatric treatment, recidivism after the release and various descriptive variables of criminological interest. MATERIALS AND METHODS review of a sample consisting of 50 patients diagnosed with schizophrenia admitted to the Prison Psychiatric Hospital of Seville. RESULTS there was ...