Article
The End of Conjugal Visitation Programs in the United States? Attitudes of a Sample of American University Students
College Student Journal
(2022)
Abstract
The current study explored the attitudes of criminal justice students enrolled at a Midwestern university in the United States toward conjugal visitation programs. The data were collected through an online survey questionnaire consisting of 10 closed-ended and two open-ended questions, capturing responses from 110 students enrolled in five criminal justice courses during the Spring 2020 semester. Analysis of the data shows that 74.6% of respondents supported conjugal visitation programs in general, while 18.2% opposed them. Regarding their home state’s lack of conjugal visitation programming, 70% of participants expressed support for adopting such a program in the state, while 11.8% voiced opposition toward such a program. The results of this study closely align with extant research concerning justifications for and against conjugal visitation programs.
Keywords
- conjugal visitation program,
- corrections,
- penology,
- attitudes of college students,
- prison inmates
Disciplines
Publication Date
Winter March 3, 2022
Citation Information
Mensah Adinkrah, Johnita Cody and Carley Engstrom. "The End of Conjugal Visitation Programs in the United States? Attitudes of a Sample of American University Students" College Student Journal (2022) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mensah_adinkrah/52/