{"title":"Social and Psychological Correlates of Protective Custody (PC) Status","authors":"T. Pierson","doi":"10.1300/J264V14N01_09","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Missouri data for 915 protective custody (PC) inmates and for 9593 non-PC inmates are compared. Variables examined include medical status, mental health status, formal education, educational level, age, race, rural or urban sentencing county, marital status, family ties, work skills, religious preference, public and institutional risk ratings, current offense, and sentence length. PCs are found to have more deficient ratings than non-PCs among all social, medical, and psychological indicators. Some indices (age, sex offenses) follow stereotypical patterns; unexpected findings include longer PC sentence length, and PC over-representation among inmates convicted of violent crimes, notably homicide.","PeriodicalId":107632,"journal":{"name":"Journal of offender counseling, services & rehabilitation","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2008-10-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of offender counseling, services & rehabilitation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1300/J264V14N01_09","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Abstract
Abstract Missouri data for 915 protective custody (PC) inmates and for 9593 non-PC inmates are compared. Variables examined include medical status, mental health status, formal education, educational level, age, race, rural or urban sentencing county, marital status, family ties, work skills, religious preference, public and institutional risk ratings, current offense, and sentence length. PCs are found to have more deficient ratings than non-PCs among all social, medical, and psychological indicators. Some indices (age, sex offenses) follow stereotypical patterns; unexpected findings include longer PC sentence length, and PC over-representation among inmates convicted of violent crimes, notably homicide.