DIFFERENCES AMONG BEHAVIORAL VARIABLES, PERSONAL CHARACTERISTICS, AND PERSONALITY SCORES OF TATTOOED AND NONTATTOOED PRISON INMATES

• NCJ Number: 6169
• Journal: Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency Volume: 8 Issue: 1 Dated: (JANUARY 1971) Pages: 32-37
• Author(s): R J HOWELL; I R PAYNE
• Date Published: 1971
• Length: 6 pages
• Corporate Author: National Council on Crime and Delinquency
• Publication Format: Article
• Publication Type: Report (Study/Research)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America

Annotation

RESULTS OF PERSONALITY AND STANDARD INTELLIGENCE TESTS GIVEN TO 101 TATTOOED AND NONTATTOOED INMATES AT UTAH STATE PRISON.

Abstract

IT WAS FOUND THAT TATTOOED INMATES HAD SIGNIFICANTLY MORE PSYCHIC PAIN, FAMILY DISCORD. SELF-DEGRADATION, SOCIAL DEVIANCY, IMPULSIVENESS, HOSTILITY, AND DEPRESSION THAN NONTATTOOED INMATES. THE TATTOOED HAD LOWER INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENTS, HAD COMPLETED FEWER GRADES IN SCHOOL, AND HAD BEEN INVOLVED IN MORE PRISON RULE INFRACTIONS THAN THE NONTATTOOED UNMATES. THEY WERE MORE LIKELY TO BE MARRIED, TO VIOLATE THEIR PAROLE, TO HAVE JUVENILE RECORDS, AND TO MISUSE DRUGS.