Recent scholarship has affirmed the importance of overall health and wellbeing for people
exposed to incarceration. Specifically, researchers have begun to ascertain how physical …

Prior studies suggest that visitation may have an impact on successful reentry. At the same
time, the impact of visitation on incarcerated people's concerns about reentry has received …

Formerly incarcerated people have a difficult time finding employment upon release.
Research has suggested the effectiveness in utilizing one's social capital and social …

Abstract Purpose Differential Coercion and Social Support (DCSS) theory is used to
examine whether sources of coercion and social support differ in their effects on inmate …

COVID-19 has resulted in dramatic and widespread social network interventions across the
globe, with public health measures such as distancing and isolation key epidemiological …

While in prison, incarcerated persons can be subjected to qualitatively different conditions of
confinement ranging from minimum to maximum security settings. In this study, we use data …

This paper aims to advance theory and knowledge about prison visitation by organizing
prior studies within a framework of visitation enablers and barriers and examining how …

For juveniles in residential facilities, visits from family can be quite important. But juveniles
are routinely confined far from home, and travel distance can deter many families from …

Objectives This study tests the relative timing of inmate infractions in the weeks before and
after a visit. Method Our sample is a cohort of 823 male inmates who participated in the …

Scholarship suggests that prison visits can have beneficial as well as potential adverse
effects on life in prison. What remains unclear is what explains these heterogeneous effects …