What does it mean to say that a prison has a “culture?” Scholars have long emphasized the
presence of a “prison code” and, more recently, a “racial code” as salient cultural domains in …

A prison gang is a durable group that shares a collective identity, maintains a locus of
custodial influence, exhibits collective behavior, and engages in a pattern of illegal activity …

Using a new data set on scientific collaboration in neuroblastoma research over a period of
41 years, we study how the structure of collaboration ties in an evolving scientific field …

This article investigates students' access to social capital and its role in their educational
decisions in the stratified German school system. We measure social capital as the …

Social integration is theorized to enhance psychological well-being and reduce stress
among incarcerated women. However, little empirical research has examined the …

This study focuses on gender disparities in defiance prison infractions—an understudied
and highly discretionary type of rule violation—which have important implications for …

Connecting feminist perspectives to a re-emergent literature on prison society, this study
uses a social network perspective to understand the informal social organization of …

Uncovering causal relations from event sequences to guide decision‐making has become
an essential task across various domains. Unfortunately, this task remains a challenge …

Emerging research suggests that physical attractiveness may yield outcomes beyond
preferential treatment, such as increasing the vulnerability to victimization during …

The pseudo-family is a longstanding carceral concept, but its existence and characteristics
are uncertain in contemporary women's prisons. This study explores pseudo-family …