2017
DOI: 10.1111/1745-9125.12155
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Do Cellmates Matter? A Causal Test of the Schools of Crime Hypothesis With Implications for Differential Association and Deterrence Theories

Abstract: 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 crime hypothesis by estimating prison peer effects that result from differential cellmate associations in a male, first‐time release cohort from the Pennsylvania Department of Corrections. To isolate causal prison pe… Show more

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“…1 Another approach to measuring peer influence is the random assignment of peers to specific individuals. For example, several authors have examined if (randomly assigned) roommates or cellmates influence behavior (e.g., Harris et al, 2018). Such approaches are statistically appropriate for identifying peer influence processes, but less applicable for a unit-level peer-influence process such as in the TC.…”
Section: Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…1 Another approach to measuring peer influence is the random assignment of peers to specific individuals. For example, several authors have examined if (randomly assigned) roommates or cellmates influence behavior (e.g., Harris et al, 2018). Such approaches are statistically appropriate for identifying peer influence processes, but less applicable for a unit-level peer-influence process such as in the TC.…”
Section: Analysesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…One way treatment variation deepens is through differential engagement with the program, a problem not unique to holistic defense (Hamilton et al, 2018; Hawken, 2012). To understand whether and how holistic defense works for different types of clients who engage differently, researchers should consider analyzing experimental data with methods such as instrumental variables or local instrumental variables, which can estimate person-level effects under such circumstances (Angrist, 2006; Harris et al, 2018; Heckman & Vytlacil, 2005).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Criminal attitudes and identities—as well as techniques for engaging in crime—can also result from criminogenic peer influences during confinement (part of “prisonization”; Clemmer, 1958). But it should be noted that prison peer influences are far from universally criminogenic (e.g., Harris et al, 2018; Kreager et al., 2017). Nonetheless, if the struggles of confinement and initial reentry (or social processes during that period) lead to a hardening of one's criminal identity, then a subsequent exacerbation of criminal activity will be expected.…”
Section: Life‐course Theoretical Perspectivesmentioning
confidence: 99%