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Perhaps of all the problem behaviours discussed in this book, deliberate self-harm by prisoners is most likely to attract dispositional explanations. This is a behaviour that is easily pathologised. Accordingly, much of the research in this area has been aimed at trying to identify those prisoners most at risk. This research has followed two lines of study. Some researchers have adopted a clinical approach, searching for psychological variables that might be useful in the development of risk-screening devices. Others have taken an actuarial approach, and examined risk in terms of established relationships with type of sentence, length of sentence, stage of sentence, prisoner race, psychiatric history and so forth (Salive et al., 1989).
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Perhaps of all the problem behaviours discussed in this book, deliberate self-harm by prisoners is most likely to attract dispositional explanations. This is a behaviour that is easily pathologised. Accordingly, much of the research in this area has been aimed at trying to identify those prisoners most at risk. This research has followed two lines of study. Some researchers have adopted a clinical approach, searching for psychological variables that might be useful in the development of risk-screening devices. Others have taken an actuarial approach, and examined risk in terms of established relationships with type of sentence, length of sentence, stage of sentence, prisoner race, psychiatric history and so forth (Salive et al., 1989).
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