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Title: Incarceration, Social Bonds, and the Lifecourse
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Huebner, Beth Marie |
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Incarceration, Social Bonds, and the Lifecourse Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 2003. DAI-A 64/08, p. 3078, Feb 2004 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: UMI - University Microfilms, Bell and Howell Information and Learning Keyword(s): Crime; Family Studies; Modeling, Growth Curve/Latent Trajectory Analysis; Modeling, Mixed Effects; Sociability/Socialization/Social Interaction; Social Roles In the current study, the lifecourse perspective, as posited by Sampson and Laub (1993), was used to examine the relative effect of incarceration on social bond attainment. It was hypothesized that individuals who have been incarcerated would be less likely to attain bonds to marriage and work and the nature of bonds attained would be further diminished by the event. The hypotheses were tested using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Results from regression and growth curve models confirm the lifecourse perspective. Across all models estimated, incarceration was negatively associated with both the likelihood of attainment and the nature of the social bond. A number of significant relationships were found between static-individual predictors and social bond attainment; however, individual demographic factors were found only to be moderately related to the initial status of the individual and had little effect on the nature of change over time. The findings from this study reinforce the importance of adult social bonds in determining life trajectories. Implications of these findings are discussed in terms of their relevance to the study of prisoner reentry. |
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Huebner, Beth Marie. Incarceration, Social Bonds, and the Lifecourse. Ph.D. Dissertation, Michigan State University, 2003. DAI-A 64/08, p. 3078, Feb 2004. |