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

• Autore: Meade Benjamin <1981->
• 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
• 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
• 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.: 9910813961503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)