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UNINA9910813961503321 |
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Autore |
Meade Benjamin <1981-> |
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Titolo |
Moral communities and jailhouse religion : religiosity and prison misconduct / / Benjamin Meade |
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El Paso, Texas : , : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, , 2014 |
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©2014 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (254 p.) |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Prisoners - Religious life - United States |
Prison psychology - United States |
Criminals - Rehabilitation - United States |
Prison discipline - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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