RT Article
T1 Is It Who You Know in Prison That Counts? Exposure to Prison Gang Members and Criminal Careers
JF Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
VO 67
IS 3
SP 1
OP 23
A1 Dawson, Krysta L.
A1 Bouchard, Martin
A1 McCuish, Evan C.
A2 Bouchard, Martin
A2 McCuish, Evan C.
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/194954589X
AB Incarceration exposes inmates to a range of offenders with a variety of skillsets. Whether connections made in prison have lasting consequences for criminal careers, or are simply relationships made "for the stay," is at the heart of this study. We examine the potential consequences of prison ties of a specific kind: connections to prison gang members. We rely on unique social network data drawn from a subsample of male participants from the Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study who formed a prison gang between 2000 and 2010. Using data on daily interactions of inmates as captured by correctional agents, we examine if being part of a youth prison gang has long-term consequences for criminal careers - not just for gang members, but also for a subsample of non-gang members embedded within the prison gang network. We find that non-gang youth who had a smaller social distance to gang members had longer criminal careers than non-gang youth who were further away from gang members. These non-gang youth even had longer criminal careers than youth prison gang members.
K1 analyse d’un réseau social
K1 carrière criminelle
K1 Criminal Careers
K1 Gangs
K1 jeunes
K1 Prison
K1 Social Network Analysis
K1 Youth
DO 10.3138/cjccj-2025-0001