摘要：Does religion have an impact on a prison inmate's behavior. This paper reports the results of a study that shows that an inmate's motivations for appearing to be religious in prison is a better way to understand the association between religion and their future behavior. Using data from a number of prisons in the United States and multinomial-logistic regression, I show thatan inmate's intrinsic motivations forpursuing religion impact the inmate's behavioral intentions in a variety ofsocialsituations in prison, and that thisinmate's actionswould "stand out" from fellow inmates' actionsin ways that run contrary to the inmate code, when compared to those inmateswho pursue religion for the extrinsic benefits
