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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Meade, Benjamin, 1981- author.

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal Justice

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Prisoners--Religious life--United States.

Prisoners.

Prison psychology--United States.

Prison psychology.

Criminals--Rehabilitation--United States.

Criminals.

Prison discipline--United States.

Prison discipline.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso, Texas : LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC, 2014.

Language Note:

English

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781593327804

1593327803

OCLC:

885123678