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- Title
The Allocation of a Scarce Correctional Resource: Deciding Who Is Eligible for an Electronic Monitoring Program.
- Authors
Furnham, Adrian; McClelland, Alastair; Drummond‐Baxter, Edward
- Abstract
Participants rated hypothetical prisoners with respect to their suitability for a place on a British Home Office electronic monitoring (tagging) program. Five dichotomous variables (gender, race, previous criminal record, dependents, skill level) were combined in a factorial fashion to generate 32 descriptions. Females were favored over males; first-time offenders over those with a criminal record; individuals with dependents over those with no dependents; and the skilled over the unskilled. White participants favored White prisoners over Black, while the reverse was true for Black participants. Those with a negative attribute (criminal record) attracted lower priority ratings than did White prisoners with a record, but those with a positive attribute attracted higher ratings than did White first-time offenders.
- Subjects
ELECTRONIC monitoring of parolees &; probationers; ALTERNATIVES to imprisonment; ELECTRONIC surveillance; SEX discrimination; SEX discrimination against men; RACE discrimination; FIRST-time offenders
- Publication
Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 2010, Vol 40, Issue 7, p1605
- ISSN
0021-9029
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1559-1816.2010.00631.x