RT Article
T1 Long-Term Impacts of Incarceration Exposure and Social Network Stability in Later Life
JF The prison journal
VO 105
IS 3
SP 263
OP 287
A1 Feng, Nan
A1 Cornwell, Benjamin
A2 Cornwell, Benjamin
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1928052614
AB Does incarceration have long-term impacts on the social life of individuals as they age? This article examines whether and how previous incarceration exposure influences the close social circle in later adulthood. Based on a longitudinal data of 1,308 individuals, we find that individuals with incarceration exposure have more network turnover over a 10-year period. Moreover, for older adults who had incarceration exposure, their frequency of contact, kin composition, and density at the baseline fail to predict corresponding network characteristics 10 years later. The destabilizing effect of incarceration on social and family life is long term and extends into later adulthood.
K1 network dynamics
K1 marginalized population
K1 Reentry
K1 Social Networks
K1 incarceration exposure
DO 10.1177/00328855251328866