| This study evaluates whether the level of inmate religiousness in prison is associated with subsequent adjustment to the community as measured in (a) re-arrest or (b) self-reported measures of adjustment. This research is an extension of the study by Clear et. al. (1992) which examined the relationship between prisoners, prisons and religion, and found that a prisoner's religious participation has an important and complex, but significant relationship to adjustment to prison. In this study official FBI Criminal Reports were added to the existing data base for the two cohorts (religious and non-religious inmates( who participated in the earlier study by Clear et. al.. (1992). |
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