Vai al contenuto principale della pagina

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



(Visualizza in formato marc)    (Visualizza in BIBFRAME)

Autore: Meade Benjamin <1981-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Moral communities and jailhouse religion : religiosity and prison misconduct / / Benjamin Meade Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: El Paso, Texas : , : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, , 2014
©2014
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
Disciplina: 365/.6430973
Soggetto topico: Prisoners - Religious life - United States
Prison psychology - United States
Criminals - Rehabilitation - United States
Prison discipline - United States
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Moral communities and jailhouse religion  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-59332-780-3
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910465383103321
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
Opac: Controlla la disponibilità qui
Serie: Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)