| Over the years, examinations of prison violence have focused on the comparative influence of importation and deprivation factors as predictors of the correlates of inmate violence. These studies, however, liited their focus to the study of either race or gender effects. However, none has fully examined the relationship between race and gender, especially with regard to possible interaction effects on inmate violence. This study employs logistic and Poisson regression techniques on self-report data obtained from the Survey of Inmates of State Correctional Facilities to assess the factors associated with the probability of inmates being found guilty of violence towards other inmates and the number of guilty findings they receive. Implications for the relative merits of the importation and deprivation hypotheses will be discussed. |
Updated 05/20/2006