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Author Meade, Benjamin, 1981-

Title Moral Communities and Jailhouse Religion : Religiosity and Prison Misconduct.

Publication Info. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014.
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Description 1 online resource (254 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship
Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)
Summary 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.
Contents 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Prisoners -- Religious life -- United States.
Prisoners -- Religious life.
United States.
Prison discipline -- United States.
Prison discipline.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation -- United States.
Criminals -- Rehabilitation.
Prison psychology -- United States.
Prison psychology.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Meade, Benjamin. Moral Communities and Jailhouse Religion : Religiosity and Prison Misconduct. El Paso : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, ©2014 9781593327583
ISBN 9781593327804 (electronic book)
1593327803 (electronic book)

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