Hanneke Palmen
Biographic Data
| ID | 1732629 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hanneke Palmen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hanneke |
| FAMILY NAME | Palmen |
| SIGNATURE | PALMEN H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2850-4318 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Solo or Social Chefs: Importation and Deprivation Factors as Determinants of Participating in Communal Cooking and Communal Eating Practices in Prisons
Prison food studies found that communal cooking improves peer support, agency, well-being, and construction of new identities or social status. However, the decision to cook with others, rather than alone, remains an underexplored dimension of prison life. This study fills that gap by examining the extent to which both personal characteristics and prison conditions associate with communal cooking and eating practices, drawing on the theoretical f…
Assessing the Affective Organizational Commitment Scale: A Multilevel Psychometric Study among Prison Staff
Research in various occupational contexts has demonstrated the relevance of affective organizational commitment in generating beneficial outcomes for workers and organizations in terms of well-being, performance, and customer satisfaction. Findings from a small number of prison studies confirm the relevance of commitment for prison workers and prison agencies. Of the various existing measures, the affective organizational commitment scale is the …
Understanding the Relationship Between Child Visits, Pre-Prison Father-Child Contact, and Recidivism Among Formerly Imprisoned Fathers
This study examined whether father-child contact before imprisonment and child visits during imprisonment were associated with recidivism among 874 fathers released from Dutch prisons. Although child visits during imprisonment were not linked to recidivism after adjusting for background factors, pre-prison father-child contact was associated with lower recidivism 12 months post release. Fathers who had pre-prison contact with their children, rece…
Predictors of reward status in prison: Behaviour, motivation, and self-governance ability
Reward systems in prison are applied worldwide. In reward systems, the responsibility for behavioural reform is increasingly transferred from states to incarcerated individuals, as these individuals can earn a reward status by complying with institutional rules. The underlying assumption of such systems is that rewards promote motivation for compliance. Despite the large impact of (not) earning reward status on individual lives, it has seldomly b…
Measuring prison climate across contexts: Lessons from administering the Prison Climate Questionnaire in the USA
Prison climate surveys are uniquely positioned to identify how the quality of prison life differs both within and between institutions. However, much of this comparative potential remains unrealized, in part because of insufficient evidence that existing survey instruments are suitable for use in different contexts and that survey data can be reliably compared across contexts. In this paper, we explore the suitability of the Prison Climate Questi…
Do Prison Visits Have a Spectrum? Visitation Quality and the Varying Impacts for Individuals’ Behavior and Well-Being in Prison
Scholarship suggests that prison visits can have beneficial as well as potential adverse effects on life in prison. What remains unclear is what explains these heterogeneous effects. In this study, latent profile analysis and regression analyses are used to examine whether the nature of people’s experiences during visits dictates their effects on individuals’ behavior and well-being in prison among more than 2,000 individuals incarcerated in Dutc…
Cell's Kitchen: Normalization of Foodplaces in Dutch Penal Institutions
In popular media, carceral food places are often depicted as large communal mess halls, but this does not reflect the diversity of such spaces worldwide. Carceral geography, while exploring prison spaces, seldom examines foodplaces in detail. Using empirical data from 21 Dutch penal institutions, we describe how incarcerated persons experience these spaces. Some elements of carceral foodplaces are normalized, but others, such as the gap between t…
Selective Rule Enforcement on Prison Units and Individual Misconduct: A Multilevel Study
This study examined how selective rule enforcement on prison units is related to individual misconduct. Selective rule enforcement was operationalized as the unit-level discrepancy between self- and officially reported misconduct. Both survey and administrative data were used from 4,123 individuals incarcerated in 197 units in the Netherlands. Findings showed that the level of selective rule enforcement varied greatly across units, irrespective o…
Unraveling the Black Box of Prison Visitation: Incarcerated Individuals’ and Visitors’ Conversations and Feelings During Visitation Hour
The nature of prison visits is likely to explain differences in visitation effects, but has received little research attention. Unique survey data of the Dutch Prison Visitation Study enable us to provide a first systematic account of the nature of visits, by describing the topics of conversation and experienced feelings of both incarcerated individuals ( n = 787) and visitors ( n = 662). Results indicate much variation in feelings (positive and …
How do Visit Facilitation and Accessibility of Prisons Relate to Visits from Professionals and Volunteers
Reintegration support by community-based professionals and volunteers (CBPs) is needed to prepare prisoners for release. Yet, the way in which CBPs are received, informed and accommodated, may hamper in-prison involvement. Therefore, the current study explores the visit facilitation and accessibility of prisons in the Netherlands as experienced by CBPs. A new instrument to measure facilitation and accessibility across institutions is introduced. …
Receiving visits in prison and aggressive and contraband misconduct among Dutch prisoners
Although scholars have emphasised the implications of social support for in-prison behaviour, and prison administrators worldwide use visitation as a correctional tool to manage prisoner behaviour, a few empirical studies have provided an articulate account of the visitation–misconduct relationship. This study expands research in this field by (a) addressing various features of visits, such as whether, from whom and how often prisoners receive vi…
Is There a Relationship Between Prison Conditions and Recidivism
Recidivism rates after release from prison are high worldwide. While research has not shown much promise in the ability of incarceration to reduce the risk of reoffending, little attention has been paid to the variation in prison experiences. This article examines if a relationship exists between prison conditions (unit characteristics and prison climate) and recidivism, and if any such relationship can be attributed to contextual or selection ef…
Do Prisoners With Reintegration Needs Receive Relevant Professional Assistance
Ex-prisoners often experience barriers to successful transition regarding employment, finances, housing, healthcare, and valid identification. Based on the Offender Management framework, assistance during imprisonment by prison- and community-based professionals is considered key in preparing prisoners for release regarding these reintegration needs. Therefore, the current study examines the degree to which prisoners with reintegration needs are …
Professional support and re-entry preparedness among prisoners
Multiagency support is considered crucial in the successful resettlement of prisoners. Various prison-based and community-based professionals should each play a part in supporting prisoners through the gate regarding employment, housing, financial problems, healthcare or valid identification issues. Yet, little is known about the actual contribution of this support to a better perceived re-entry preparedness among prisoners. To examine the associ…
The Role of Prison Climate and Work Climate in Understanding Subjective Safety Among Correctional Staff
To perform their work effectively, correctional officers should feel safe. Yet, research explaining officers’ subjective safety is scarce and overlooked the context in which these feelings arise. This study explores the impact of shared perceptions of prison climate and work climate. Survey and administrative data of incarcerated individuals and staff from the Dutch Life in Custody Study were used. Multilevel analyses on 1,427 correctional office…
Visitation Enablers and Barriers: Evaluating the Influences of Practical, Relational, and Experiential Factors on Visitation in Dutch Prisons
This paper aims to advance theory and knowledge about prison visitation by organizing prior studies within a framework of visitation enablers and barriers and examining how practical, relational, and experiential factors explain variation in prison visiting among 773 adult males across eight Dutch prisons. Findings suggest that all three domains play out at once to influence visitation. Whether visitors come to visit seems to depend on their rela…
The effects of reward systems in prison: A systematic review
Visitation patterns and post-release offending: Exploring variations in the timing, rate, and consistency of prison visits
Prior research and theory suggest that receiving visits in prison can reduce recidivism. However, recent scholarship shows that there is variability in whether, how often, and when individuals are visited while incarcerated which may affect post-release outcomes. This study therefore investigates how the frequency and timing of prison visits relate to post-release offending among individuals incarcerated in the Netherlands. Data were drawn from t…
A New Instrument to Measure Prison Climate: The Psychometric Quality of the Prison Climate Questionnaire
Various survey measures have been developed to assess prison climate. Because these instruments have shortcomings, the Prison Climate Questionnaire (PCQ) was developed to measure prison climate and its related domains across a broad prison population. In this article, the instrument and its psychometric qualities are presented. Results show that the PCQ’s factor structure, reliability, and validity were in all aspects satisfactory. It was conclud…
Doing your own time: Peer integration, aggression and mental health in Dutch male detainment facilities
Doing your own time: Peer integration, aggression and mental health in Dutch male detainment facilities
Visitation patterns and post-release offending: Exploring variations in the timing, rate, and consistency of prison visits
Prior research and theory suggest that receiving visits in prison can reduce recidivism. However, recent scholarship shows that there is variability in whether, how often, and when individuals are visited while incarcerated which may affect post-release outcomes. This study therefore investigates how the frequency and timing of prison visits relate to post-release offending among individuals incarcerated in the Netherlands. Data were drawn from t…
Doing your own time: Peer integration, aggression and mental health in Dutch male detainment facilities
A New Instrument to Measure Prison Climate: The Psychometric Quality of the Prison Climate Questionnaire
Various survey measures have been developed to assess prison climate. Because these instruments have shortcomings, the Prison Climate Questionnaire (PCQ) was developed to measure prison climate and its related domains across a broad prison population. In this article, the instrument and its psychometric qualities are presented. Results show that the PCQ’s factor structure, reliability, and validity were in all aspects satisfactory. It was conclud…
The Role of Prison Climate and Work Climate in Understanding Subjective Safety Among Correctional Staff
To perform their work effectively, correctional officers should feel safe. Yet, research explaining officers’ subjective safety is scarce and overlooked the context in which these feelings arise. This study explores the impact of shared perceptions of prison climate and work climate. Survey and administrative data of incarcerated individuals and staff from the Dutch Life in Custody Study were used. Multilevel analyses on 1,427 correctional office…
Visitation Enablers and Barriers: Evaluating the Influences of Practical, Relational, and Experiential Factors on Visitation in Dutch Prisons
This paper aims to advance theory and knowledge about prison visitation by organizing prior studies within a framework of visitation enablers and barriers and examining how practical, relational, and experiential factors explain variation in prison visiting among 773 adult males across eight Dutch prisons. Findings suggest that all three domains play out at once to influence visitation. Whether visitors come to visit seems to depend on their rela…
The effects of reward systems in prison: A systematic review
Visitation patterns and post-release offending: Exploring variations in the timing, rate, and consistency of prison visits
Prior research and theory suggest that receiving visits in prison can reduce recidivism. However, recent scholarship shows that there is variability in whether, how often, and when individuals are visited while incarcerated which may affect post-release outcomes. This study therefore investigates how the frequency and timing of prison visits relate to post-release offending among individuals incarcerated in the Netherlands. Data were drawn from t…
Receiving visits in prison and aggressive and contraband misconduct among Dutch prisoners
Although scholars have emphasised the implications of social support for in-prison behaviour, and prison administrators worldwide use visitation as a correctional tool to manage prisoner behaviour, a few empirical studies have provided an articulate account of the visitation–misconduct relationship. This study expands research in this field by (a) addressing various features of visits, such as whether, from whom and how often prisoners receive vi…
Is There a Relationship Between Prison Conditions and Recidivism
Recidivism rates after release from prison are high worldwide. While research has not shown much promise in the ability of incarceration to reduce the risk of reoffending, little attention has been paid to the variation in prison experiences. This article examines if a relationship exists between prison conditions (unit characteristics and prison climate) and recidivism, and if any such relationship can be attributed to contextual or selection ef…
Do Prisoners With Reintegration Needs Receive Relevant Professional Assistance
Ex-prisoners often experience barriers to successful transition regarding employment, finances, housing, healthcare, and valid identification. Based on the Offender Management framework, assistance during imprisonment by prison- and community-based professionals is considered key in preparing prisoners for release regarding these reintegration needs. Therefore, the current study examines the degree to which prisoners with reintegration needs are …
Professional support and re-entry preparedness among prisoners
Multiagency support is considered crucial in the successful resettlement of prisoners. Various prison-based and community-based professionals should each play a part in supporting prisoners through the gate regarding employment, housing, financial problems, healthcare or valid identification issues. Yet, little is known about the actual contribution of this support to a better perceived re-entry preparedness among prisoners. To examine the associ…
Unraveling the Black Box of Prison Visitation: Incarcerated Individuals’ and Visitors’ Conversations and Feelings During Visitation Hour
The nature of prison visits is likely to explain differences in visitation effects, but has received little research attention. Unique survey data of the Dutch Prison Visitation Study enable us to provide a first systematic account of the nature of visits, by describing the topics of conversation and experienced feelings of both incarcerated individuals ( n = 787) and visitors ( n = 662). Results indicate much variation in feelings (positive and …
How do Visit Facilitation and Accessibility of Prisons Relate to Visits from Professionals and Volunteers
Reintegration support by community-based professionals and volunteers (CBPs) is needed to prepare prisoners for release. Yet, the way in which CBPs are received, informed and accommodated, may hamper in-prison involvement. Therefore, the current study explores the visit facilitation and accessibility of prisons in the Netherlands as experienced by CBPs. A new instrument to measure facilitation and accessibility across institutions is introduced. …
Measuring prison climate across contexts: Lessons from administering the Prison Climate Questionnaire in the USA
Prison climate surveys are uniquely positioned to identify how the quality of prison life differs both within and between institutions. However, much of this comparative potential remains unrealized, in part because of insufficient evidence that existing survey instruments are suitable for use in different contexts and that survey data can be reliably compared across contexts. In this paper, we explore the suitability of the Prison Climate Questi…
Do Prison Visits Have a Spectrum? Visitation Quality and the Varying Impacts for Individuals’ Behavior and Well-Being in Prison
Scholarship suggests that prison visits can have beneficial as well as potential adverse effects on life in prison. What remains unclear is what explains these heterogeneous effects. In this study, latent profile analysis and regression analyses are used to examine whether the nature of people’s experiences during visits dictates their effects on individuals’ behavior and well-being in prison among more than 2,000 individuals incarcerated in Dutc…
Cell's Kitchen: Normalization of Foodplaces in Dutch Penal Institutions
In popular media, carceral food places are often depicted as large communal mess halls, but this does not reflect the diversity of such spaces worldwide. Carceral geography, while exploring prison spaces, seldom examines foodplaces in detail. Using empirical data from 21 Dutch penal institutions, we describe how incarcerated persons experience these spaces. Some elements of carceral foodplaces are normalized, but others, such as the gap between t…
Selective Rule Enforcement on Prison Units and Individual Misconduct: A Multilevel Study
This study examined how selective rule enforcement on prison units is related to individual misconduct. Selective rule enforcement was operationalized as the unit-level discrepancy between self- and officially reported misconduct. Both survey and administrative data were used from 4,123 individuals incarcerated in 197 units in the Netherlands. Findings showed that the level of selective rule enforcement varied greatly across units, irrespective o…
Solo or Social Chefs: Importation and Deprivation Factors as Determinants of Participating in Communal Cooking and Communal Eating Practices in Prisons
Prison food studies found that communal cooking improves peer support, agency, well-being, and construction of new identities or social status. However, the decision to cook with others, rather than alone, remains an underexplored dimension of prison life. This study fills that gap by examining the extent to which both personal characteristics and prison conditions associate with communal cooking and eating practices, drawing on the theoretical f…
Assessing the Affective Organizational Commitment Scale: A Multilevel Psychometric Study among Prison Staff
Research in various occupational contexts has demonstrated the relevance of affective organizational commitment in generating beneficial outcomes for workers and organizations in terms of well-being, performance, and customer satisfaction. Findings from a small number of prison studies confirm the relevance of commitment for prison workers and prison agencies. Of the various existing measures, the affective organizational commitment scale is the …
Understanding the Relationship Between Child Visits, Pre-Prison Father-Child Contact, and Recidivism Among Formerly Imprisoned Fathers
This study examined whether father-child contact before imprisonment and child visits during imprisonment were associated with recidivism among 874 fathers released from Dutch prisons. Although child visits during imprisonment were not linked to recidivism after adjusting for background factors, pre-prison father-child contact was associated with lower recidivism 12 months post release. Fathers who had pre-prison contact with their children, rece…
Predictors of reward status in prison: Behaviour, motivation, and self-governance ability
Reward systems in prison are applied worldwide. In reward systems, the responsibility for behavioural reform is increasingly transferred from states to incarcerated individuals, as these individuals can earn a reward status by complying with institutional rules. The underlying assumption of such systems is that rewards promote motivation for compliance. Despite the large impact of (not) earning reward status on individual lives, it has seldomly b…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (16 works) · Prison (16 works) · Criminology (15 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending (10 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (8 works) · Social Psychology (8 works) · Medicine (7 works) · Political science (6 works)