Abstract

HERRERA RODRIGUEZ, Jacobo; VEGA ZAYAS, Jesica María  and  CARRANZA NAJERA, Ana Karen. A study on the social climate and influencing variables at a women s correctional center in Aguascalientes, México (2012). Rev. Crim. [online]. 2014, vol.56, n.3, pp.59-68. ISSN 1794-3108.

The social climate has been subject to scrutiny in different environments such as schools, family groups, work centers, and prisons. This article shows the results of the application of the Social Climate Scale for Correctional Institutions (CIES) (Moos, Moos & Trickett, 1995) at a women's correctional center in Aguascalientes, Mexico. This was a non-experimental cohort, cross sectional study of psychometrical nature, with the participation of 72 inmates composing the total female population of this establishment. With the instruments provided by the answers it was possible to run bivariate correlation studies, the results of which helped realize that variables such as the type of crime, the risk level, the presence of some psychopathological diagnosis and the schooling level are positively correlated with the elevated perception of some subscales of the instrument used to analyze the social climate. Likewise, with respect to this climate, a global perception profile was obtained, which showed that it is perceived as favorable in general terms.

Keywords : Female criminality; correctional facilities; psychological diagnosis; penitentiary treatment; women s prison.

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