The research of inmate adjustment and prisonization in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chuan-Chun Jen, 任全鈞
• Other Authors: none
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2006
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/07219450953808265425

博士 === 國立中正大學 === 犯罪防治所 === 94 === In this research, I study male inmate’s adjustment problems in Taiwan. Our primary goal is to understand how prisons affect individuals based on a transactional model of the causes of human behavior. To understand the process of adjustment in prison, I adopt a longitudinal design to look at the prediction of future behavior base on current behavior. The measurements were collected at three different waves with each subject over a period of 12 months. The results found: the first three ranking responses, “Missing somebody, Wishing time would go faster and Had more privacy and quiet”, did not change in inmates’ view of problems of prison throuthout the survey. Subject’s changes occurred due to the impact of imprisonment during their first year. The results showed that the incarcerated stressor had dropped significantly from the 1st wave to the 2nd wave, but the scale had increased significantly from 2nd to 3rd. We also have looked at the inmates’ internal control which continued to improve gradually. Prisonization decreased from 1st to 2nd survey. After 2nd wave survey, the score was stable. But criminal attitudes and beliefs also improved between 2nd and 3rd survey. In their coping strategy, this did not appear to have been the case. Finally inmates’ emotion problem, we can see at the beginning of their terms, many subjects showed signs of emotional problems. However, after 12 months there was visible but gradual improvement. In inmates’ model of adjustment on 3 waves, the results showed that 7 paths were found to be statistically significant for inmate’s adjustment. Coping strategy was not affected by individual demographic variables. Inmate’s emotion not only was affected by locus of control and coping strategy but locus of control through coping strategy. Moreover, inmate’s cognition was directly affected by locus of control, age and incarcerated stressor, was not through mediated variable. Compared with first wave model, 2nd wave results showed that coping strategies was explained by locus of control and incarcerated stressor. Inmate’s emotion was affected by locus of control and incarcerated stressor but was not explained by coping strategies. Inmate’s cognition was directly affected by not only coping strategy and incarcerated stressor but also locus of control through coping strategy. The paths of third wave were the same as the second wave in inmates’ model of adjustment. Finally, I use an invariance-testing strategy to test for the duplication of structural paths across groups. After the first group was replicated over a second group, the results show first time group model and second time group is not invariant. The path from incarcerated stressor to emotion is at a significant level between two waves but estimate parameter is different. When 2nd wave was duplicated over the 3rd wave, we found that 2nd wave model and 3rd wave model are invariant. When 1st wave replicated over 3rd wave, the results showed first wave group model and third wave group are not invariant. Also worthy of note was the significant difference of coping to cognition and incarcerated stressor to cognition.