RT Article
T1 Social capital and its impacts on prison life: is visitation a conduit?
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 68
IS 4
SP 644
OP 683
A1 Anderson, Claudia
A2 Cochran, Joshua C.
A2 Toman, Elisa L.
LA English
YR 2022
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1798128365
AB This paper examines how social capital prior to incarceration may contribute to experiences during incarceration and whether visitation allows social capital to have protective effects. We investigate, too, whether disadvantages experienced during incarceration by racial and ethnic minorities, women, and individuals in poverty can be explained in part by reduced social capital. We test these ideas using national-level survey data from state prison inmates and a series of regression and mediation analyses. Three main findings emerge: (1) Pre-prison social capital reduces in-prison deviance and improves optimism about reentry. (2) Social capital operates through visitation to reduce social isolation. (3) There is some limited evidence that group disparities in in-prison experiences can be explained by inequalities in social capital.
K1 Incarceration
K1 Visitation
K1 Inequality
DO 10.1177/0011128720977445