30/01/2019
ABSTRACT
This research “psychosocial profiling of inmates: implication of crime prevention” is aimed at examining the role of personality types (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience and neuroticism), life satisfaction, level of education and employment status on criminal behaviour among inmates. The research was a survey design and stratified sampling technique was used in collecting data. The participants consisted of 215 males and females prison inmates in Apapa Medium, Female and Marximum prisons. The instruments that were used were: the B.F.I (Big Five Inventory), PD Scale and Life Satisfaction Index-Z (LSI-Z). Pearson moment correlation, regression analysis, one-way analysis of variance and independent t-test were used to test the stated hypotheses. The result revealed that there is a significant negative correlation between extraversion and criminal behaviour. Openness to experienced also has significant negative relationship with criminal behaviour while neuroticism correlated significant positively with criminal behaviour. Agreeableness and Conscientiousness have no relationship with criminal behaviour. There was also significant negative relationship between life satisfaction and criminal behaviour. Prison inmates with low education level scored positively higher on criminal behaviour. Lastly, Prison inmates who were unemployed scored positively higher on criminal behaviour. The result was discussed based on literature reviewed.
