Some Effects of Crowding in a Prison Environment1
- 1 March 1975
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Applied Social Psychology
- Vol. 5 (1) , 86-91
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1559-1816.1975.tb00674.x
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 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.Keywords
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