Title: Some Effects of Crowding in a Prison Environment<sup>1</sup>
Abstract:Inmates at a federal correctional institution were examined for their criterion of what constitutes overcrowding. In general, inmates who were housed under highly crowded conditions exhibited less tol...Inmates at a federal correctional institution were examined for their criterion of what constitutes overcrowding. In general, inmates who were housed under highly crowded conditions exhibited less tolerance of overcrowding than did those who were housed under relatively less crowded conditions. Higher crowding also yielded more negative affective responses to the physical environment. This relationship existed only with respect to a social‐density measure of crowding and not for a spatial‐density measure.Read More
Publication Year: 1975
Publication Date: 1975-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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