Ryan Nicole R, Ryan Nathan C
La Trobe Law School, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Law in Context Research Cluster, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.
Psychiatr Psychol Law. 2024 Jan 11;32(1):1-22. doi: 10.1080/13218719.2023.2272910. eCollection 2025.
Often, when an offender is sentenced their family and friends find themselves in a state of uncertainty. At this point, family and friends of prisoners need support and often find themselves alone to navigate and learn the correctional system to gain visitation approval. It is unknown how people new to visitation learns the rules and processes of prison visits to gain visitation access. This study explores 21 prison visitors' information-seeking behaviour to understanding how people new to prison visitation learns to navigate the system to obtain visitation approval and identify any factors that might imped their ability to information-seek, thus delaying or preventing visitation. Using Flexible Pattern Matching Analysis we identified five factors that can occur prior to individual's need to information-seek, and one key factor that was common during the visit experience that can impact peoples 'ability to information seek'. Implications for prison visitation policy and practice are discussed.
通常，当罪犯被判刑时，他们的家人和朋友会陷入一种不确定的状态。在这个时候，囚犯的家人和朋友需要支持，而且他们常常发现自己孤立无援，要独自摸索并了解惩教系统以获得探视批准。对于初次接触探视的人是如何了解监狱探视的规则和流程以获得探视许可的，目前尚不清楚。本研究探讨了21名监狱探视者的信息寻求行为，以了解初次接触监狱探视的人是如何学会在该系统中运作以获得探视批准的，并确定可能阻碍他们进行信息寻求的任何因素，从而导致探视延迟或无法进行探视。通过灵活模式匹配分析，我们确定了五个可能在个人需要寻求信息之前出现的因素，以及一个在探视过程中常见的关键因素，该因素可能会影响人们进行信息寻求的能力。文中还讨论了对监狱探视政策和实践的影响。
