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Front. Psychiatry
Sec. Addictive Disorders
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1413814
This article is part of the Research Topic Impulsivity and Compulsivity Related to Substance Use Disorders View all 4 articles

Correction criteria for the qualitative analysis of the prison population: Drugs Possession/Consumption and Gender Violence

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Lucas Muñoz-López Lucas Muñoz-López 1Borja Fernández García-Valdecasas Borja Fernández García-Valdecasas 2Slava López-Rodríguez Slava López-Rodríguez 3Beatriz Aguilar-Yamuza Beatriz Aguilar-Yamuza 4,5*
  • 1 Department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatment. Faculty of Education and Sports Sciences, University of Granada. Melilla, Spain
  • 2 Department of Theory and History of Education. Faculty of Education Sciences, University of Granada, Spain
  • 3 Department of Didactics of Language and Literature, University of Granada, Spain
  • 4 University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain
  • 5 Department of Education. Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, University of Córdoba, Spain

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    People with language difficulties cannot face challenges related to social skills. Those language disorders affect academic, work environments, and social interaction, leading to maladaptive and aggressive behaviors. Young inmates are at high risk of experiencing unrecognized language deficiencies. It is, therefore, necessary to analyze linguistic pathologies that can influence criminal behavior (drugs possession/consumption and gender violence crimes). There are many standardized tests to evaluate and detect language difficulties in adults in English. However, there are relatively few options in Spanish; there are no tests that evaluate language qualitatively and in depth. Most of the research is conducted with children and adolescents. Objetives: to propose a reliable coding system for the correction and interpretation of narratives (essays and narratives) from the Battery for the Evaluation of Writing Processes (PROESC) in the prisoners charged of drugs possession or consumption and gender violence crimes. Design: The sample was composed of 287 men. Main Outcome Measures: They completed the Demographic, Offense, and Behavioral Interview in Institutions, the International Personality Disorders Examination (IPDE), and PROESC. Results: We found that the proposed coding system presented high concordance, that is, high inter-rater reliability. Conclusion: The classification system for the correction and interpretation of narratives was shown to be reliable.

    Keywords: qualitative analysis, Language Disorders, Drugs Possession or Consumption, gender violence, Writing

    Received: 07 Apr 2024; Accepted: 18 Jul 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Muñoz-López, Fernández García-Valdecasas, López-Rodríguez and Aguilar-Yamuza. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence: Beatriz Aguilar-Yamuza, University of Cordoba, Córdoba, Spain

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