National Assessment of Gangs in Correctional Facilities, 1992 / Dennis G. Baughet al.

Format:

Datafile

Contributor:

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research.

Series:

ICPSR (Series) ; 6147.

ICPSR ; 6147

Language:

English

Genre:

Academic theses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Edition:

ICPSR version.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1997.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

data file

Summary:

This study sought to identify and examine current policies and strategies for controlling prison gangs and to determine the ways in which correctional facilities were dealing with gangs in their institutions. Respondents to the mail survey included 55 local jail systems and 52 state prison systems (the 50 state Departments of Corrections, the District of Columbia, and the Federal Bureau of Prisons). The survey question text used the term ''security threat group'' (STG), which was defined as ''two or more inmates, acting together, who pose a threat to the security or safety of staff/inmates and/or are disruptive to programs and/or to the orderly management of the facility/system,'' rather than the generic term ''gang.'' Data contain information on total inmate population, number of STGs, number of inmates identified as confirmed, suspected, associate, and drop-out members of STGs, total incidents of violence, number of violent incidents by STG members, management strategies to deal with gangs, and names of STGs known to be present within the system.... Cf.: http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06147

Contents:

Part 1: Data File; Part 2: SAS Data Definition Statements

Notes:

Title from ICPSR DDI metadata of 2004-10-30.

OCLC:

61156531

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