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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Problems with Using Official Records from Young Offender Institutions as Indices of Bullying

Graham P. Dyson

Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland

Kevin G. Power

Calton House, Redhoughs Rigg, Edinburgh, Scotland

Edward Wozniak

Department of Psychology, University of Stirling, Stirling FK9 4LA, Scotland

Official records were analysed from five Scottish Young Offender Institutions (YOIs) in an attempt to ascertain their reliability as a measure of the nature and extent of bullying. Misconduct reports were examined over a 3-month period, for all five YOIs, but such measures were not regarded as reliable indicators of bullying for reasons that include the weaknesses of the measures used, the manifold differences between institutions in terms of administration and inmate composition, and the nature of the behaviour being measured. More extensive information was also obtained from the misconduct reports of one institution examined retrospectively for a 4-year period. This was carried out to highlight changes that may have occurred in response to the advent of an antibullying strategy. Results are discussed in terms of the limitations of using official records as indices of the nature and extent of bullying.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 41, No. 2, 121-138 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X97412003
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