Description & Citation--Study No. 4556 | |
Bibliographic Description | |
| ICPSR Study No.: | 4556 |
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| Persistent URL: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR04556 |
| Title: | Ethno-Methodological Study of the Subculture of Prison Inmate Sexuality in the United States, 2004-2005 |
| Principal Investigator(s): | Mark S. Fleisher, Case Western Reserve University |
| Jessie L. Krienert, Illinois State University | |
| Funding Agency: | United States Department of Justice. National Institute of Justice |
| Grant Number: | 2003-RP-BX-1001 |
| Bibliographic Citation: | Fleisher, Mark S., and Jessie L. Krienert. ETHNO-METHODOLOGICAL STUDY OF THE SUBCULTURE OF PRISON INMATE SEXUALITY IN THE UNITED STATES, 2004-2005 [Computer file]. ICPSR04556-v1. Cleveland, OH: Case Western Reserve University [producer], 2005. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-12-21. doi:10.3886/ICPSR04556 |
Scope of Study | |
| Summary: | This study of prison rapes used an ethnographic, culturally relativistic methodology and was conducted between April 2004 and September 2005. The study was conducted in 30 correctional institutions, 23 men's and 7 women's, in 10 states. All 23 men's institutions were the highest-security level men's prison available in each state. When women's institutions were multi-security level and housed minimum, medium, and high-security inmates, they were selected from the highest-security level housing units within the institution. A total of 564 (409 male and 155 female) inmates were interviewed. The inmates to be interviewed were selected from the general prison population using a probability sample design. Average interview length was just under an hour. The sole mode of data collection was an open-ended, semistructured inmate interview. To ensure comparability of answers, surveys were designed with each query resting on a particular concept or variable. The same interview instrument was used for both male and female inmates. Questions were asked about inmate prison history, mental health, rape, social process, domestic violence and relationships, staff, institutional factors, and perception of social roles, and demographic information. Also included are lexical responses and free list questions such as "Why do inmates have sex with other inmates?" |
| Subject Term(s): | correctional facilities, correctional guards, female inmates, inmate attitudes, inmate populations, inmates, male inmates, perceptions, prison conditions, prison security, prison violence, sexual assault, sexual attitudes |
| Smallest Geographic Unit: | none |
| Geographic Coverage: | United States |
| Time Period: | 2004 - 2005 |
| Date(s) of Collection: | April 2004 - September 2005 |
| Unit of Observation: | individual |
| Universe: | All prison inmates, male and female, in high-security general population, nonfederal prisons in the United States from April 2004 through September 2005. |
| Data Type: | machine-readable text, and survey data |
| Data Collection Notes: | (1) Details on the treatment of interview text after collection, including cleaning and coding, can be found in the final report. (2) More information on the methods used to create the quantitative data file can be found in the codebook. (3) The inmate interview files are available through restricted access procedures in two ZIP files. The file pkg04456-0002_REST.zip contains the 409 interviews with male inmates and the Atlas/ti hermeneutic unit file, NIJ-206.hpr. File pkg04556-0003_REST.zip contains the 155 female inmate interviews and the Atlas/ti hermeneutic unit file, NIJ-206.hpr. |
Methodology | |
| Sample: | High-security male and female institutions were targeted within each consenting state. All 23 men's institutions were the highest-security level men's prison available in each state. When institutions were multi-security level and housed minimum, medium, and high-security women inmates, interviewed inmates were selected from the highest security level housing units within the institution. Therefore, all 30 institutions contained high-security, general population inmates. Interviewed inmates came from the general prison population. Not included were special inmate populations including inmates in administrative detention, disciplinary segregation, hospitalized inmates, inmates in residential substance abuse units, inmates in mental health residential units or protective custody, non-sentenced inmates, inmates in transit units, and Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) detainees or deportees. In total, 409 male inmates and 155 female inmates were interviewed. To select a sample of general population inmates, procedures were based on practices used in classical population probability sampling in which a systematic sample is selected using a random start and a fixed selection-interval number thereafter. The number of general population inmates on an institution's sample roster was divided by the number of subjects required by the projected number of interviews conducted in a week. A staff member was asked to pick a number in the range of one up to the interval number. The first potential subject corresponded to that inmate numbered on the sampling roster. To select the second inmate, the interval number was added to the number of the first inmate selected. This pattern was continued until the minimum number of inmates was selected. Fifteen to twenty inmates per institution were then added to account for refusals, transfers, medical care, and other unexpected circumstances. |
| Weight: | none |
| Data Source: | The data were collected from inmate interviews using an open-ended, semistructured interview. |
| Mode of Data Collection: | face-to-face interview |
| Response Rates: | On average, two inmates per institution chose not to participate or to terminate the interview early. |
| Presence of Common Scales: | In Part 1, several Likert-type scales were used, and in Parts 2 and 3, none were used. |
| Extent of Processing: | ICPSR checked for undocumented codes, produced a codebook and frequencies, generated SAS, SPSS, and Stata setup files, and standardized missing data. ICPSR also reformatted the data and documentation. |
Access and Availability | |
| Note: | A list of the data formats available for this study can be found in the summary of holdings. Detailed file-level information (such as record length, case count, and variable count) is listed in the file manifest. |
| Restrictions: | To protect respondent privacy, certain identifying information is restricted from general dissemination. Specifically, in Part 1, institution variables and the information in long character variables are restricted. The Part 2 and Part 3 inmate interview data are also restricted. Users interested obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement form and specify the reasons for the request. A copy of the Restricted Data Use Agreement form can be requested by calling 800-999-0960. Researchers can also download this form as a Portable Document Format (PDF) file from the download page associated with this dataset. Completed forms should be returned to: Director, National Archive of Criminal Justice Data, Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research, Institute for Social Research, P.O. Box 1248, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1248, or by fax: 734-647-8200. |
| Original ICPSR Release: | 2006-12-21 |
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