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Keeping Families Together: The Importance of Maintaining Mother–Child Contact for Incarcerated Women
Zoann K. Snyder 《Women & Criminal Justice》2013,23(1):37-59
Increases in the population of incarcerated women in the United States have resulted in the separation of growing numbers of mothers and children. The negative effects of dividing families have been noted for both the mothers and the children. The current research examines efforts at keeping imprisoned mothers and children connected through a visitation program. Through one-on-one interviews, the women prisoners share their perspectives about how their children are coping with the separation, their concerns for their children, their views of their roles as mothers, and their needs for after release. The women interviewed include participants in a specialized mother– child visitation program and a comparison group of mothers not in the program. The author suggests that keeping mothers and children connected may produce positive behavioral and emotional outcomes for both the mothers and their children that may reduce correctional costs and increase community safety. 相似文献
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Self-control theory (Gottfredson and Hirschi 1990) argues that individuals with similar attributes tend to ‘end up together’ (i.e., homophily) because of the tendency to select
friends based on self-control. Studies documenting homophily in peer groups interpret the correlation between self-control,
peer delinquency, and self-reported delinquency as evidence that self-control is an influential factor in friendship formation.
However, past studies are limited because they do not directly test the hypothesis that self-control influences friendship
selection, nor do they account for other mechanisms that may influence decisions. As a result, it is unclear whether the correlation
between individual and peer behavior is the result of selection based on self-control or alternative mechanisms. To address
this gap in the literature this study employs exponential random graph modeling to test hypotheses derived from self-control
theory using approximately 63,000 respondents from 59 schools from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent Health (Add
Health). In contrast to the predictions made by Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990), and the conclusions drawn from prior research, there is little evidence that self-control influences friendship selection.
The findings are embedded in past work on the relationship between self-control and peer relationships, and implications for
future research are discussed. 相似文献