NCJ Number
146243
Date Published
1990
Length
91 pages
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