The number of men and women under correctional supervision remains a key area of concern and research for NIJ. As the research and evaluation arm of the Department of Justice, NIJ is committed to empirically exploring issues of interest for the field of corrections. On this page, find links to articles, awards, events, publications, and multimedia related to corrections.
Research on the Mounting Problem of Correctional Officer
The average suicide rate for MADOC corrections officers over this period was approximately 105 per 100,000 — at least seven times higher than the national suicide rate (14 per 100,000), and almost 12 times higher than the suicide rate for the state of Massachusetts (nine per 100,000). Frost’s account of this study appeared in Corrections ...
Corrections
Journal overview. Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research (CPPR) promotes methodologically rigorous scholarship on criminal sentencing, institutional confinement, community corrections, treatment interventions, alternative sanctions, and reentry. The journal prioritizes empirical studies that use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method ...
COMMENTS
The number of men and women under correctional supervision remains a key area of concern and research for NIJ. As the research and evaluation arm of the Department of Justice, NIJ is committed to empirically exploring issues of interest for the field of corrections. On this page, find links to articles, awards, events, publications, and multimedia related to corrections.
The average suicide rate for MADOC corrections officers over this period was approximately 105 per 100,000 — at least seven times higher than the national suicide rate (14 per 100,000), and almost 12 times higher than the suicide rate for the state of Massachusetts (nine per 100,000). Frost’s account of this study appeared in Corrections ...
Journal overview. Corrections: Policy, Practice, and Research (CPPR) promotes methodologically rigorous scholarship on criminal sentencing, institutional confinement, community corrections, treatment interventions, alternative sanctions, and reentry. The journal prioritizes empirical studies that use quantitative, qualitative, or mixed-method ...