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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Characteristics of Inmates Admitted to Grendon Therapeutic Prison and Their Relationships to Length of Stay

John Shine

HMP Grendon, Grendon Underwood, Aylesbury, Bucks HP18 OTL, UK

Data were collected on 1,053 men admitted to Grendon during the period 1984-1994 on age, number of previous convictions, the Ravens Progressive Matrices, the Hostility and Direction of Hostility Questionnaire, and the Eysenck Personality Questionnaire. A correlation matrix between the assessment variables and time at Grendon was produced and subjected to principal component analysis. Four typologies of Grendon inmates were identified: Component 1 is described as younger, extrapunitively hostile, tough minded, and neurotic, and it had a negative correlation with length of stay. Component 2 is described as intropunitively hostile, neurotic, and introverted; and Component 3 is described as bright, emotionally stable, and truthful. Components 2 and 3 were positively correlated with length of stay. Component 4 is described as older, emotionally stable, recidivist, and it had a negative correlation with length of stay. Correlations between all four components and length of stay were of a low order of magnitude but highly statistically significant.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 45, No. 2, 252-265 (2001)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X01452010
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