Predictive Factors for Violent and Assaultive Misconducts among Disciplined Inmates：A Test of Theoretical Models

• Main Authors: CHUANG, CHIUNG-WEN, 莊瓊雯
• Other Authors: LAI,YUNG-LIEN
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/77566747548487419273

碩士 === 國立臺北大學 === 犯罪學研究所 === 102 === In January 2005, the Taiwanese Legislature Yuan passed Criminal Law of 2005 Revision, Republic of China (ROC) which mandated stricter penalties for violent, sexual, and drug-related offenders, as well as recidivists. Enacted in July 2006, this “get-tough-on-crime” policy resulted in a greater number of offenders being incarcerated. Over the past years, a dramatic increase in Taiwan’s prison population has occurred. Consequently, there was a rise in the number and rate of inmate misconduct. For example, Joe, Lee, Lin, & Hebenton (2011) noted that prison violent misconduct had increased approximately 18% from 2006 to 2009. Studies show that inmate misconduct not only contributes to an increased risk of injury, impaired delivery of services, physical and emotional problems and loss of privileges among those involved inmates, but also increases the physical and emotional repercussions for other inmates. The issue that inmate misconduct should be fully explored and studied is warranted accordingly. Based on prior studies, this thesis focused on four theoretically approaches (namely deprivation, importation, administrative, and situation models) to predict and explain those disciplined inmates who committed different kinds of misconduct: violent misconduct, incidents against other inmates, and incidents against staff. Official records of inmates’ rule violations were collected from 934 inmates housed in 7 Taiwanese prisons during 2007 summer period. In addition, due to the nature of the dependent variables (i.e. categorical variables), logistic and multinomial logistic regressions have been employed appropriately. The findings showed that based on the total chi-square change of the model, situation model is the relative powerful exploratory model across violent misconduct, incidents against other inmates, and incidents against staff, followed by administrative model. Inconsistent with prior studies, deprivation and importation models failed to be good predictive models in this study. In terms of those explanatory variables, while security level of prison, rehabilitation orientation, participation in grogram, shift of guards reporting incident, the size of cell, incident place, and cooperative incidents were highly correlated with violent misconduct, inmate pre-prison drug record, violent offense while admission, shift of guards reporting incidents, incident place, and cooperative incidents successfully predicted those incidents against other staff. None significantly predicted in explanation of incidents against staff. Discussion and police implications were addressed in final.