Countering culture: religious motivation and adherence to the "inmate code"

Does religion have an impact on a prison inmate's behavior? This paper reports the results of a study that shows that an inmate's motivations for appearing to be religious in prison is a better way to understand the association between religion and their future behavior. Using data from a...

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主要作者: Wiernik, Craig S. (Author)
格式: 電子 Article
語言:English
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出版: Creighton University 2013
In: The journal of religion & society
Year: 2013, 卷: 15
Further subjects:B Prisons and prisoners; United States
B Church work with prisoners
B Religious work with prisoners
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總結:Does religion have an impact on a prison inmate's behavior? This paper reports the results of a study that shows that an inmate's motivations for appearing to be religious in prison is a better way to understand the association between religion and their future behavior. Using data from a number of prisons in the United States and multinomial-logistic regression, I show that an inmate's intrinsic motivations for pursuing religion impact the inmate's behavioral intentions in a variety of social situations in prison, and that this inmate's actions would "stand out" from fellow inmates' actions in ways that run contrary to the inmate code, when compared to those inmates who pursue religion for the extrinsic benefits.
ISSN:1522-5658
Contains:Enthalten in: The journal of religion & society
Persistent identifiers:HDL: 10504/64321