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Incarceration, Social Capital, and Community Re-Entry

Fri, Nov 17, 12:30 to 1:50pm, Marriott, Franklin 12, 4th Floor

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract

This session includes four papers on incarceration, social capital and community re-entry. The first paper (Whichard), using narratives and egocentric network data (R-PINS) describes how prisoners’ expected future networks, measured just before release from prison, resemble their actual social networks after release from prison, and how discrepancies between those networks can be explained. The second paper (Wakefield, et al.) assesses how incarceration impacts family dynamics, using data on prison and re-entry experiences from incarcerated women in two Pennsylvania prisons (WO-PINS). The last two papers (Palmen, et al. and Hickert, et al.) use data of the Dutch Prison Project, and focus on changes in males’ social capital during imprisonment (Hickert, et al.) and how changes in social integration and characteristics of social network members is related to community re-entry (Palmen et al.). In sum, these four longitudinal studies increase our understanding of how social capital changes over the course of imprisonment, and how this impacts community re-entry.

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