Homicide Studies ( IF 1.920 ) Pub Date : 2020-06-11 , DOI: 10.1177/1088767920928106 Matt DeLisi 1 , H. Daniel Butler 1
Prison murder is the most severe form of institutional violence but its exceedingly low prevalence has limited prior research. Recent studies of prison murders make clear that serious, violent, and chronic career criminals are most likely to perpetrate inmate murders with equivocal evidence of the role of prior homicide offending on prison murder. Using retrospective administrative data from 1,005 prisoners selected from the southwestern United States, the current study examined whether homicide offending in the community is itself an importation factor that is useful for understanding prison murder and thus can be used to understand continuity in homicidal offending from the community to confinement context. Rare events logistic regression models found that individuals sentenced for first-degree murder are more likely to perpetrate prison murder. A separate rare events logistic regression model with any type of homicide commitment offense as a predictor provided similar findings suggesting these effects are robust to model specification. Given its gravity and fundamental threat to prison safety and security, we encourage data collection and additional research on prison murder and the inmates that perpetrate it.
中文翻译:
作为输入的谋杀:对从社区到监禁的凶杀连续性的实证研究
监狱谋杀是最严重的机构暴力形式,但其极低的患病率限制了先前的研究。最近对监狱谋杀案的研究表明,严重,暴力和长期职业犯罪分子最有可能犯下犯人的谋杀案,但模棱两可的证据表明,先前犯有谋杀罪的人在监狱谋杀案中发挥了作用。使用来自美国西南部的1,005名囚犯的回顾性行政数据,当前的研究检查了社区中的凶杀罪本身是否是对理解监狱谋杀有用的输入因素,因此可用于了解社区中的凶杀罪的连续性限制上下文。罕见事件逻辑回归模型发现,因一级谋杀而被判刑的人更有可能犯下监狱谋杀罪。一个单独的罕见事件逻辑回归模型,以任何类型的杀人罪作为预测因子,提供相似的发现,表明这些影响对模型规范具有鲁棒性。考虑到它对监狱安全和保障的严重性和根本性威胁,我们鼓励收集数据,并对监狱谋杀案及其犯人进行更多研究。