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2009
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Mental Health Symptoms of Incarcerated Juvenile Offenders: Change and Continuity During the First Three Months in a Secure Facility
By Shulman, Elizabeth; Goldweber, Asha; Cauffman, Elizabeth.
University of California, Irvine. Center for Evidence-Based Corrections (Irvine, CA).
The changes in juvenile offenders' mental health symptoms over the first 11 weeks of their incarceration and the relationship of these adjustments to violent behavior are examined. Sections of this Bulletin include: highlights; introduction; methodology using MAYSI-2 (Massachusetts Youth Screening Instrument, Version 2); mental health at baseline; mental health symptoms over time -- alcohol/drug use, angry-irritable, depressed-anxious, somatic complaints, suicide ideation, and mental health sym... Read More
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10 p.
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2009
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Where the Margins Meet: A Demographic Assessment of Transgender Inmates in Men's Prisons
By Sexton, Lori; Jenness, Valerie; Sumner, Jennifer.
California Dept. of Corrections and Rehabilitation (Sacramento, CA); University of California, Irvine. School of Social Ecology (Irvine, CA).
University of California, Irvine. Center for Evidence-Based Corrections (Irvine, CA).
This “research provides the first systematic empirical portrayal of a population that is exceptionally vulnerable by virtue of being both transgender and incarcerated. The focus is on demographic and well-being factors that characterize this population in ways that render it distinct from other inmate populations as well as populations of people who are not incarcerated” (p. 6). Findings are reported for education and employment, marital status, health (including metal health, substance abuse, a... Read More
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49 pages
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