Reducing Prison Violence by More Effective Inmate Management: An Experimental Field Test of the Prisoner Management Classification (PMC) System: A User's Guide to the Machine-Readable Files and Documentation, Original Codebook, and Inmate Characteristics Original Instrument

• NCJ Number: 146243
• Author(s): J Austin
• Date Published: 1990
• Length: 91 pages
• Grant Number(s): 87-IJ-CX-0014
• Contract Number(s): OJP-89-C-008
• Sponsoring Agency: National Institute of Justice (NIJ); US Dept of Justice NIJ Pub; Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
• Corporate Author: Sociometrics Corporation
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/; NCJRS Photocopy Services
• Publication Format: Document
• Publication Type: Measurement/Evaluation Device
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Issued in three volumes; Data set JU.6773

Annotation

These volumes provide background and coding information for a data set from a study that examined the extent to which the Prisoner Management Classification (PMC) system improved prison operations and reduced violence between inmates. Data set archived by the NIJ Data Resources Program at the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, located at URL http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/nacjd.

Abstract

The PMC system classifies inmates into one of five categories: selective intervention-situational, selective intervention-treatment, casework control, environmental structure, and limit setting. Data were collected from records kept by the Research and Planning Section of Washington's Department of Corrections. Data included inmate characteristics, work assignement records, disciplinary records, assignment records, and housing assignment records. Data were also collected from a long and short PMC questionnaire. Checks for out-of-range values revealed that the data are free of detectable coding errors. Tables, coding information, and data collection instruments