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Incarcerated Men’S Perceptions Of The Prison Environment: An Exploratory Study, Melissa J. Stacer
Incarcerated Men’S Perceptions Of The Prison Environment: An Exploratory Study, Melissa J. Stacer
Midwest Social Sciences Journal
The punitiveness of prisons is considered necessary for deterrence, but there is also a societal expectation that prisons will also rehabilitate. Scholars have examined whether prisons are ideal environments for rehabilitation from the perspective of the inmate, though this work largely focuses on measurement issues related to the scales used to measure offenders’ perceptions. The current research expands upon this by asking a sample of 154 incarcerated men from three different correctional facilities in the Midwestern United States what they think about their current correctional environment using the Prison Environment Scale (PES) and focusing on the answers provided by those …