OBJECTIVES This study examined a cohort of 7,046 men who were released from the Pennsylvania State prison system between 1999 and 2002 to Philadelphia County to assess the relationships between receipt of mental health services in prison and prison exit. METHODS Administrative data on prison stays for 7,046 men released from Pennsylvania prisons to Philadelphia locations were analyzed. RESU...

Purpose: To examine and compare the prevalence of different types of mental disorders among the administrative staff and warders of the central prison of Sistan and Baluchestan. Materials and Methods: The study population included all employees of Zahedan general office of prisons. The sample consisted of 100 employees, of whom fifty individuals worked in various administrative units of Zah...

As a major aim of incarceration is to reduce crime, it is important to understand the extent to which it does so. Isolating the effect of prison on crime can be difficult because of reverse causation: higher crime rates also tend to lead to larger prison populations. This paper utilizes state legislated reductions in the prison population to address this question. These policy changes were adop...

Despite data indicating that child maltreatment (CM) in various forms is associated with adult sexual victimization among community women, few studies have explicitly explored how types of CM might relate to prison sexual victimization. Because little is known about how CM might give rise to prison sexual victimization, the present study also examined emotion dysregulation emanating from early ...

The prevalence of Personality Disorders (PD) in a prison and its effect on prison social climate are studied. Our research shows a statistically significant relationship between diagnosis of PD and indicators of social climate disruption such as aggressive interpersonal conduct or compulsive demand for psychoactive drugs in medical consultations. PD is one of the most common mental disorders in...

We tested the effects of various policy rules on retailer behavior in laboratory experiments conducted at Hewlett-Packard Laboratories. Our experimental designmodels themultifaceted contemporary market for consumer computer products and is quite complex, but we found that participants can make effective decisions and that their behavior is sensitive to variations in policies. Based on our resul...