Samuel C Foster
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267448 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Samuel C Foster |
| GIVEN NAMES | Samuel C |
| FAMILY NAME | Foster |
| SIGNATURE | FOSTER S C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stetson University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A sociological perspective on public support for capital punishment
Conceptualizations of public support for the death penalty that suggest that punitiveness, desire for vengenance, authoritarianism, polital conservatism, or other characteristics generally held in low esteem by many in the academic and research communities are the primary or most significant predictors of citizen responses to this issue are challenged. It is proposed instead that fear of crime, perceptions of increasing crime rates, a belief in t…
The Importation Model Perspective on Inmate Social Roles: An Empirical Test
Two theoretical models have emerged to account for variations in the response to imprisonment among inmate populations. One, the “deprivation model,” focuses attention on the pressures and deprivations which confront the inmates. The other, the “importation model,” critiques the closed-system orientation of the deprivation model and suggests that the scope of an adequate explanation must give systematic attention to factors beyond the immediate p…
Prisonization in the Inmate Contraculture
This study, based on data obtained from a sample of 276 adult male felons confined in a maximum-security penitentiary, provides a test of the implications of a theoretical model that links levels of prisonization to the expected consequences of that process that appear to inhibit the attainment of any prosocial changes in the world-views of the inmates. In addition, the study provides a partial test of what have become defined as the importation …
Prisonization in the Inmate Contraculture
This study, based on data obtained from a sample of 276 adult male felons confined in a maximum-security penitentiary, provides a test of the implications of a theoretical model that links levels of prisonization to the expected consequences of that process that appear to inhibit the attainment of any prosocial changes in the world-views of the inmates. In addition, the study provides a partial test of what have become defined as the importation …
The Importation Model Perspective on Inmate Social Roles: An Empirical Test
Two theoretical models have emerged to account for variations in the response to imprisonment among inmate populations. One, the “deprivation model,” focuses attention on the pressures and deprivations which confront the inmates. The other, the “importation model,” critiques the closed-system orientation of the deprivation model and suggests that the scope of an adequate explanation must give systematic attention to factors beyond the immediate p…
Prisonization in the Inmate Contraculture
This study, based on data obtained from a sample of 276 adult male felons confined in a maximum-security penitentiary, provides a test of the implications of a theoretical model that links levels of prisonization to the expected consequences of that process that appear to inhibit the attainment of any prosocial changes in the world-views of the inmates. In addition, the study provides a partial test of what have become defined as the importation …
The Importation Model Perspective on Inmate Social Roles: An Empirical Test
Two theoretical models have emerged to account for variations in the response to imprisonment among inmate populations. One, the “deprivation model,” focuses attention on the pressures and deprivations which confront the inmates. The other, the “importation model,” critiques the closed-system orientation of the deprivation model and suggests that the scope of an adequate explanation must give systematic attention to factors beyond the immediate p…
A sociological perspective on public support for capital punishment
Conceptualizations of public support for the death penalty that suggest that punitiveness, desire for vengenance, authoritarianism, polital conservatism, or other characteristics generally held in low esteem by many in the academic and research communities are the primary or most significant predictors of citizen responses to this issue are challenged. It is proposed instead that fear of crime, perceptions of increasing crime rates, a belief in t…
Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (3 works) · Criminology (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Institution (2 works) · Perception (2 works) · Perspective (graphical) (2 works)