RT Article
T1 Effects of Prison Security Level on the Violent Misconduct for New Federal Prison Entries
JF The prison journal
VO 105
IS 3
SP 305
OP 329
A1 Gwinn, Jason D.
A2 Harer, Miles D.
A2 Langan, Neal P.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1928052592
AB This study investigated the independent effects of security level on rates of violent misconduct, and other forms of misconduct in Federal prison. With first-time federally incarcerated people, this study tested the effect of security level in a sharp intention-to-treat regression discontinuity to separate the effect from individual characteristics. Higher security was independently associated with higher rates of violent misconduct at medium (vs. low) and high (vs. medium) security. This study refers to this result as an “inflator effect.” Policy implications are discussed in the wake of the ban on Federal private prisons, and implications for risk assessment design are discussed.
K1 Security Level
K1 regression discontinuity
K1 Endogeneity
K1 Prison violence
K1 Prison
K1 Risk assessment
K1 prisonization
K1 Classification
DO 10.1177/00328855251328869