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Improving Correctional Classification, New York, 1981-1983

(5 datasets; 12,686 KB)

Principal Investigator(s): Wright, Kevin

Summary: There were three specific goals of this research. The first was to evaluate three procedures currently available for the classification of correctional inmates: the Risk Analysis method, Megargee's Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory Typology, and Toch's Prison Preference Inventory. Second, the research devised and tested a postdictive model of adjustment to prison life. Third, a new classification scheme was developed for predicting inmate adjustment to prison life that... (view full summary)

Persistent URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR08437.v1

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