Applied Behavioral Science Faculty Member Receives CoLA Grant

Karen Lahm is using a grant College of Liberal Arts grant to examine inmate-on-inmate assaults and inmate-on-staff assaults at the Ohio Reformatory for Women from 2007-2012.  The data comes from official institutional conduct reports as reported by prison staff and officials.  There are a little over 500 of these reports to analyze: 300 inmate-on-inmate and a little over 200 inmate-on-staff.  These assaults can be physical, sexual, or an issue of harassment.  The data collected from these reports includes information on the inmate offenders and victims (both inmates and staff).  Some of the