@article{ref1,
title="Capital Offenders in Texas Prisons: Rates, Correlates, and an Actuarial Analysis of Violent Misconduct",
journal="Law and human behavior",
year="2007",
author="Cunningham, Mark D. and Sorensen, Jon R.",
volume="31",
number="6",
pages="553-571",
abstract="This study analyzed the records of 136 recently incarcerated capital murder offenders in the initial phase (M = 2.37 years, range = 6-40 months) of their life sentences in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Prevalence rates of institutional violence were inversely related to severity: potentially violent misconduct (36.8%), assaultive violations (14%), serious assaults (5.1%), and homicides (0%). Consistent with prior studies, factors correlated with assaultive misconduct included age (inversely), prior prison confinement, and concurrent robbery or burglary in the capital offense. A simplified Burgess scale entitled the Risk Assessment Scale for Prison - Capital (RASP-Cap) was moderately successful in identifying varying levels of improbability of committing violence-related misconduct however defined (AUC = .715-.766).<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0147-7307",
doi="10.1007/s10979-006-9079-z",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10979-006-9079-z"
}