Prison officers experience a number of occupational and organizational stressors, are at considerable risk burnout. There has been limited research examining the processes by which demands impact on their burnout risk. Drawing job demands-resources model, we tested distributive justice perceptions as mediator for relationship between workload violence with emotional exhaustion. We further wheth...

A systems approach to modeling demand which incorporates survival modeling is applied to the problem of prison population projection. The approach models the flow of inmates through the prison system and differs from earlier approaches by exploiting the differences in the incarceration hazard rates of individuals in the general population and those who have previously been incarcerated and expl...

Equine-Facilitated Prison-Based Programs Within the Context of Prison-Based Animal Programs: State of the Science Review Keren Bachi To cite this article: Keren Bachi (2013) Equine-Facilitated Prison-Based Programs Within the Context of Prison-Based Animal Programs: State of the Science Review, Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 52:1, 46-74, DOI: 10.1080/10509674.2012.734371 To link to this ar...

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...

The prison population is increasing and the health problems of prisoners are considerable. Prison is designed with punishment, correction and rehabilitation to the community in mind and these goals may conflict with the aims of health care. A literature review showed that the main issues in prison health care are mental health, substance abuse and communicable diseases. Women prisoners and olde...

BACKGROUND Clinicians working in a women's prison in British Columbia observed hepatitis C sero-conversion among inmates, prompting this study to determine: the characteristics of women who do and do not report illicit drug use in prison; patterns of drug use inside prison; factors associated with illicit drug use that might contribute to bloodborne transmission inside prison. METHODS A cross...

The authors investigated whether students who selectively volunteer for a study of prison life possess dispositions associated with behaving abusively. Students were recruited for a psychological study of prison life using a virtually identical newspaper ad as used in the Stanford Prison Experiment (SPE; Haney, Banks & Zimbardo, 1973) or for a psychological study, an identical ad minus the word...

The unique characteristics of prisons have important implications for treating clients in this setting. Though by no means exhaustive, this chapter highlights the most salient issues affecting the delivery of effective treatment to a variety of populations within the prison system. It describes the prison population as of 2003, reviews the treatment services available and key issues affecting t...