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Imprisonment
After a Guilty Verdict
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Psychology
Not Applicable
03/25/2014

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What was the aim of Gillis and Nafekh's study?
Definition
To investigate the impact of community based employment on offender reintegration
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How many participants were in Gillis and Nafekh's study?
Definition
23,525
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What was the design used by Gillis and Nafekh?
Definition

Matched pairs:

Divided into those employed prior to release and those unemployed

Matched for gender, risk level, release year, sentence length, family/martial relations, substance abuse, emotional orientation, community functioning and attitudes

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What were the resultsĀ of Gillis and Nafekh's study?
Definition

Average time to get employment was 6 months for men, 10 for women

Those on employment programmes prior to finishing their sentence more likely to remain on conditional release and less likely to return to custody with a new offence - median time to return was also longer

End of study 70% of employed group remained on conditional release compared to 55% of unemployed group

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What was the aim of Dooley's study?
Definition
To investigate all unnatural deaths that occured in prisons in England and Wales
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What was the methodology of Dooley's study?
Definition
A content analysis of Prison Department personal papers
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What were the results of Dooley's study?
Definition

442 unnatural deaths were recorded in prisons in England and Wales between 1972 and 1987

Of these 300 got a verdict of suicide and 52 from consciously self-inflicted injury

Signifcantly more of the sucide group were on remand compared to those classes as CSI

More of the CSI group were female and deaths occured mainly at night

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