Title: Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide: Combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition - ScienceDirect
Headings: Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide: Combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition
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Journal of Criminal Justice
Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide: Combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition ☆
Abstract
Introduction
Current study
Theoretical framework
Deprivation model
Importation model
Combined models
Data and methods
Data
Analytic Strategy
Independent variables
Results
Description of the sample
Bivariate results
Results of the negative binomial regression model
Discussion and conclusions
Acknowledgements
References

Content: Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide: Combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition - ScienceDirect
Journal of Criminal Justice
Volume 38, Issue 4, July–August 2010, Pages 796-806
Deprivation, importation, and prison suicide: Combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition ☆
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Abstract
Previous research on suicide in United States prisons focused on the characteristics of inmates who commit suicide while largely ignoring the prison context surrounding these suicides. The following analyses used national data on 1,082 state prisons in the United States to examine how prison conditions (deprivation) and inmate composition (importation) predict prison suicide. Results of a negative binomial regression model showed that the number of suicides was significantly increased in supermaximum and maximum security prisons (relative to minimum), under conditions of overcrowding and violence, and in prisons where a greater proportion of inmates received mental health services. Although deprivation variables were overwhelmingly predictive of suicide, the results pointed to the combined effects of institutional conditions and inmate composition on prison suicide. Previous article
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Introduction
Representing roughly 6 percent of all deaths in state prisons, suicide is ranked as the second leading cause of death in prisons in the United States, behind deaths due to natural causes ( Mumola, 2005 ). Although prison suicide is considered rare, rates of suicide in prison are higher than those for the United States in general ( Hayes, 1995, Mumola, 2005 ). Implied with this assertion is that something specific to the prison—either the prison environment or the prisoners within—account for the elevated prison suicide rates. In either case, research on prison suicide provides important information, not only about suicide and its prevention, but also about the conditions of prisons in the United States and the effects of these conditions on some of the most vulnerable members of society.