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