RT Article
T1 The Effect of Legal Status on Prison Misconduct
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 68
IS 12
SP 2328
OP 2354
A1 Piatkowska, Sylwia J.
A2 Brown, Jennifer M.
A2 Ramos, Javier
A2 Bales, William D.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1839616687
AB The present study examines the relationship between legal status and prisoner misconduct by comparing official disciplinary infraction reports between documented, undocumented, and native-born inmates. We also examine the extent to which such effects vary across different types (i.e., criminal and non-criminal) of reported infractions. Using data from the Florida Department of Corrections, the results reveal that undocumented foreigners have a higher likelihood and a higher frequency of any misconduct and criminal misconduct as well as a higher frequency of non-criminal misconduct than the other two groups, while no such differences are found between documented and native-born prisoners. Our research underscores the salient role of legal status in predicting the in-prison behaviors of foreign-born inmates.
K1 foreign-born
K1 Legal Status
K1 Prison misconduct
DO 10.1177/00111287211067178