NCJ Number
103777
Date Published
1986
Length
15 pages
Annotation
This paper reviews corrections research projects conducted or funded by the Home Office Research and Planning Unit (England), with attention to programs targeting long-term and mentally disordered prisoners.
Abstract
The current research program contains some 17 projects ranging from prison design to infant development in prison mother and baby units. Others address race relations, recidivism while on parole, maintaining a young offender's links with the community, and cost efficiency. The main emphasis, however, is on the long-term prisoner and the mentally disordered inmate. Researchers are studying the literature on prison regimes and control, the first small unit for disruptive long-term prisoners, prisons established for inmates who need the very highest level of security, and control problems among long-term prisoners. Among the research projects dealing with mentally disordered prisoners are an examination of the regime at England's only psychiatric prison -- Grendon -- and a psychiatric profile of the entire prison population. List Home Office research projects.