Smith, H.P., Kaminski, R.J., Power, J. and Slade, K. ORCID: 0000-0002-7442-4805, 2019. Self-harming behaviors in prison: a comparison of suicidal processes, self-injurious behaviors, and mixed events. Criminal Justice Studies: a Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society, 32 (3), pp. 264-286. ISSN 1478-601X
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Abstract
Self-harming behaviors occurring in prison disproportionately consume resources and cause considerable disruption. To date, theoretical paradigms have explained self-injurious behaviors and suicidal processes either via a continuum or dichotomy of self-harm. This current study examines all documented acts of self-harm (n=1,158) occurring in South Carolina's 28 prisons over a 50 month period. We test and find support for a tripartite schema of self-harm; differentiated with regard to suicidal processes, self-injurious behaviors, and a 'mixed group' of self-harming behaviors. These groups of behaviors were distinct with regard to situational variables (i.e. body part targeted, injury severity) as well as institutional responses (i.e., medical treatment needed, employment of suicide protocols). Findings indicate that self-injurious behaviors are likely to result in physical injury and/or hospitalizations.
Item Type: | Journal article | ||||
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Publication Title: | Criminal Justice Studies: a Critical Journal of Crime, Law and Society | ||||
Creators: | Smith, H.P., Kaminski, R.J., Power, J. and Slade, K. | ||||
Publisher: | Routledge | ||||
Date: | 25 April 2019 | ||||
Volume: | 32 | ||||
Number: | 3 | ||||
ISSN: | 1478-601X | ||||
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Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences | ||||
Record created by: | Jill Tomkinson | ||||
Date Added: | 09 Apr 2019 12:40 | ||||
Last Modified: | 31 May 2021 15:15 | ||||
URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/36215 |
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