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prison legitimacy: a standalone construct

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prisoners' acceptance of staff authority as fair and rightful, which helps maintain order inside prisons.

In corrections, prison legitimacy refers to prisoners' acceptance of staff authority as fair and rightful, which helps maintain order inside prisons. This meaning comes from Sparks (1995) in The British Journal of Sociology.[1]

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References

Sparks, J. R., & Bottoms, A. E. (1995). Legitimacy and Order in Prisons. The British Journal of Sociology, 46(1), 45. https://doi.org/10.2307/591622

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