@article{ref1,
title="Changes in criminal thinking and identity in novice and experienced inmates: prisonization revisited",
journal="Criminal justice and behavior",
year="2003",
author="Walters, Glenn D.",
volume="30",
number="4",
pages="399-421",
abstract="Criminal thinking and identity were assessed in 55 federal prison inmates with no prior prison experience (novice inmates) and 93 inmates with at least one prior adult incarceration and 5 or more years in prison (experienced inmates). Changes on the Self-Assertion/Deception scale of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Syles (PICTS) and Centrality subscale of the Social Identity as a Criminal(SIC) questionnaire were congruent with the prisonization hypothesis and a priori predictions that measures of criminal thinking and identity would rise in novice inmates between initial assessment and follow-up but would remain stable in experienced inmates. On the other hand, experienced inmates recorded significant gains on the In-Group Affect subscale of the SIC. Incarceration, it would seem, may promote prisonization in both novice and experienced inmates.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0093-8548",
doi="10.1177/0093854803253137",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0093854803253137"
}