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Crime and Delinquency

Crime and Delinquency "Criminogenic Effects of the Prison Environment on Inmate Behavior: Some Experimental Evidence" by Scott Camp and Gerald G. Gaes (2005)

Criminologists have long debated whether prisons are criminogenic or rehabilitative. Proponents of both positions have considered three influences on inmate behavior: criminal propensity, inmate culture in the prison, and the actual prison regime, with the latter two being regarded as environmental influences. Criminal propensity is reflected in the inmate's criminal history and includes the individual inmate's characteristics. Prison inmate culture is predominately developed by the inmates and referred to as the informal structure of ...

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