RT Article
T1 Who gets visited in prison?: individual- and community-level disparities in inmate visitation experiences
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 63
IS 5
SP 545
OP 568
A1 Cochran, Joshua C.
A2 Mears, Daniel P. 1966-
A2 Bales, William D.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1577405080
AB Scholarship has shown that visitation helps individuals maintain social ties during imprisonment, which, in turn, can improve inmate behavior and reduce recidivism. Not being visited can result in collateral consequences and inequality in punishment. Few studies, however, have explored the factors associated with visitation. This study uses data on Florida inmates to identify individual- and community-level factors that may affect visitation. Consistent with expectations derived from prior theory and research, the study finds that inmates who are older, Black, and who have been incarcerated more frequently experience less visitation. In addition, inmates who come from areas with higher incarceration rates and higher levels of social altruism experience more visits. Unexpectedly, however, sentence length and economic disadvantage are not associated with visitation. Implications of these findings are discussed.
K1 Visitation
K1 Prison experiences
K1 Social ties
K1 Social isolation
K1 Inequality
K1 Gefängnisbesuche
DO 10.1177/0011128714542503