Description
Book SynopsisGender, race, and community, and space all provide important filters for a person’s contact with the criminal justice system. Cynthia Zhang and Meredith Ille analyze current and former inmates through interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys to better understand criminal behavior. This book is vital to understanding the course of a criminal career from the offense to the decision to desist from crime, and reentry into the community, as it reveals mechanisms through which inmates’ identities and social networks interact. This identity network perspective combines identity theory and social network analysis to better understand, predict, and mediate criminal behavior. This book is of interest to those studying criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and psychology.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: An Identity Network Perspective and Social Learning Theory
Chapter 2: General Displacement and Cognitive Breaking with a Criminal Career
Chapter 3: Rural Criminality: A Comparison and Contrast to the City
Chapter 4: Criminal, Family, and Community
Chapter 5: Identity Network Interplay and Spatial Reentry
Conclusion
Appendix A: Methods
Appendix B: A Method of Identity Network
Appendix C: Reasons for Choosing Pairwise and Listwise Deletion for Missing Data
Appendix D: Other Control Variables in “Spatial Reentry”
Appendix E: Interview Guide for Pilot Study
Appendix F: Survey Questionnaire for Pilot Study
Appendix G: Interview Guide for Wave 2
Appendix H: Survey Questionnaire for Wave 2
References
About the Authors
