RT Article
T1 Sex differences in the predictors of prisoner misconduct
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 41
IS 4
SP 433
OP 452
A1 Steiner, Benjamin 1975-2019
A2 Wooldredge, John
LA English
YR 2014
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1885475993
AB This study involved a comparison of the influences on inmate misconduct among female and male inmates. Data were collected from over 5,500 inmates housed in 46 facilities in Ohio and Kentucky (570 women and 5,059 men), and the relative effects of these inmates? background characteristics and confinement experiences were examined for sex-specific samples. The magnitudes of effects were then compared across the two groups. Findings revealed that background characteristics (e.g., age) and confinement experiences (e.g., involvement in education/vocational program) influence women?s and men?s odds of misconduct. Equality of coefficient tests revealed only three differences in the magnitude of these effects across the analyses of the sex-specific samples, suggesting there are far more similarities than differences in the predictors of misconduct among men versus women.
K1 Gender
K1 Inmate
K1 Misconduct
K1 Prison
K1 Sex
DO 10.1177/0093854813504404