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LABORATORY ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIMENTS FOR CORRECTIONS An Alternative Method
Author(s) -
CHOW ESTHER NGANLING,
HEMPLE WILLIAM E.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
criminology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.467
H-Index - 139
eISSN - 1745-9125
pISSN - 0011-1384
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1977.tb00041.x
Subject(s) - generalizability theory , replicate , flexibility (engineering) , realism , relevance (law) , computer science , management science , psychology , contrast (vision) , organizational behavior , social psychology , epistemology , artificial intelligence , engineering , mathematics , political science , developmental psychology , philosophy , statistics , law
The methodology of laboratory organizational experiments has seldom been applied to corrections. Its advantages of flexibility, experimental control, ability to replicate theoretically important but naturally rare occurrences, and its potential for cross‐validation of other research are shown to be of both practical and theoretical relevance to corrections. The problems of realism, generalizability, practicality, and ethics are examined and a remedy proposed: the sociodramatic simulation of correctional organizations to contrast the effects of theoretically important structural properties and correctional approaches, This remedy synthesizes the realistic and the symbolic approaches to organizational simulation. It is practical, and it resolves many of the ethical problems .