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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786515303321

Autore

Meade Benjamin <1981->

Titolo

Moral communities and jailhouse religion : religiosity and prison misconduct / / Benjamin Meade

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, Texas : , : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

1-59332-780-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Criminal Justice

Disciplina

365/.6430973

Soggetti

Prisoners - Religious life - United States

Prison psychology - United States

Criminals - Rehabilitation - United States

Prison discipline - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Religion, religiosity, and deviance -- Inmate misconduct: theory and evidence -- Religion and corrections -- Studying the relationship between religiosity and inmate misconduct -- The effects of religiosity on inmate misconduct -- Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

Meade examines the relationship between religiosity and inmate misconduct. The most important aspect of his work is an attempt to resolve unanswered questions in the existing research about the religiosity-inmate misconduct relationship using a national sample of inmates and rigorous statistical techniques. His basic thesis is that the mixed findings across studies may be attributed to issues concerning selection bias and/or contextual differences in religiosity across facilities. The findings from the studies indicate that selection bias could result in an underestimation of the magnitude of