Warren Keith L, Doogan Nathan, De Leon George, Phillips Gary S, Moody James, Hodge Ashleigh
The Ohio State University College of Social Work.
J Offender Rehabil. 2013 Jan 1;52(4):270-286. doi: 10.1080/10509674.2013.782776.
Therapeutic communities (TC s) have a strong record of maintaining a high quality social climate on prison units. One possible reason for this is the system of mutual monitoring among TC residents, based on the assumption that peer affirmation of behavior in accord with TC norms and peer correction of behavior contrary to TC norms will lead to increased resident prosocial behavior. Laboratory experiments have demonstrated that such peer monitoring can lead to cooperation, but there has been no quantitative test of this hypothesis in an actual TC. In this article we test this assumption by using the affirmations that residents of three different TCs send as a measure of prosocial behavior following the reception of peer affirmations and corrections. At all three facilities residents send more affirmations following the reception of both affirmations and corrections, with this relationship being stronger and longer lasting after receiving affirmations. No other variable consistently predicts the number of affirmations that residents send to peers. These findings imply that mutual monitoring among TC residents can lead to increased levels of prosocial behavior within the facility, and that prosocial behavior in response to peer affirmations plays a key role.
治疗性社区（TCs）在维持监狱单元高质量社会氛围方面有着出色的记录。造成这种情况的一个可能原因是TC居民之间的相互监督系统，其基于这样一种假设，即同伴对符合TC规范行为的肯定以及对违反TC规范行为的纠正将导致居民亲社会行为的增加。实验室实验表明，这种同伴监督可以促进合作，但在实际的治疗性社区中尚未对这一假设进行定量测试。在本文中，我们通过使用三个不同治疗性社区的居民在收到同伴的肯定和纠正后所发出的肯定作为亲社会行为的一种衡量方式，来检验这一假设。在所有三个设施中，居民在收到肯定和纠正后都会发出更多的肯定，并且在收到肯定后这种关系会更强且持续时间更长。没有其他变量能持续预测居民向同伴发出肯定的数量。这些发现表明，治疗性社区居民之间的相互监督可以导致设施内亲社会行为水平的提高，并且对同伴肯定做出回应的亲社会行为起着关键作用。
