Do cellmates matter?: a causal test of the schools of crime hypothesis with implications for differential association and deterrence theories

In the schools of crime hypothesis, social interactions between inmates are assumed to produce criminogenic rather than deterrent prison peer effects, thus implicating them in the persistence of high recidivism rates and null or criminogenic prison effects. We assess the validity of the schools of c...

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Main Author: Harris, Heather M. (Author)
Contributors: Nakamura, Kiminori ; Bucklen, Kristofer Bret
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2018
In: Criminology
Year: 2018, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 87–122
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Social interaction effects
Prisonization
Operant conditioning
Local instrumental variables
Administrative data