NCJ Number
104566
Date Published
1985
Length
12 pages
Annotation
This summary report highlights the characteristics and attitudes of women inmates at the Federal Correctional Institution at Morgantown, W. Va.
Abstract
A general profile encompasses age, race, cooperation with males in their crimes, job skills, income history, family background and ties, and children and child care. The personality characteristics highlighted were obtained from administration of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory and include information on authority conflict, hostility toward others, hypomania, social responsibility, and masculine and feminine traits. Other information pertains to self-concept, locus of control, achievement resistance, maturity, attitudes toward work, relationships with other women, relationships with men, attitudes toward cocorrections, and expectations and attitudes toward the future. Information also covers salient factors related to job skills and probation and parole failures.