Gang affiliation and prison violence: a comparison of matching analyses

IF 1.8 2区社会学 Q2 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Experimental Criminology Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI:10.1007/s11292-024-09619-8

Jon R. Sorensen, Abdullah Cihan, Thomas J. Reidy

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Abstract

Objectives

The current study examines the influence of gang affiliation and specific gangs on prison misconduct, particularly serious and assaultive behavior.

Methods

Different matching procedures were employed with a large sample of gang and nongang inmates to minimize confounding factors likely to impact the effect of gang affiliation on outcome measures. A wide array of demographic variables associated with gang affiliation is included in multivariate analyses in predicting general, serious, and assaultive acts.

Results

Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM) generally yielded similar results. Consistent with prior research, gang-affiliated inmates committed significantly higher rates of general and serious violations.

Conclusions

Researchers may prefer PSM over CEM when analyzing serious and rare behaviors. Prison gang affiliation is a significant contributing factor to various prison disciplinary outcomes, and specific gang affiliation significantly influences disciplinary outcomes.

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帮派归属与监狱暴力：匹配分析比较

方法对帮派和非帮派囚犯的大量样本采用了不同的匹配程序，以尽量减少可能影响帮派对结果测量的影响的混杂因素。结果倾向得分匹配法（PSM）和粗略精确匹配法（CEM）得出的结果基本相似。结论在分析严重和罕见行为时，研究人员可能更倾向于倾向得分匹配法，而不是精确匹配法。监狱帮派从属关系是导致各种监狱纪律处分结果的重要因素，具体的帮派从属关系对纪律处分结果有显著影响。

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Journal of Experimental Criminology CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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6.20

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6.70%

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期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Criminology focuses on high quality experimental and quasi-experimental research in the advancement of criminological theory and/or the development of evidence based crime and justice policy. The journal is also committed to the advancement of the science of systematic reviews and experimental methods in criminology and criminal justice. The journal seeks empirical papers on experimental and quasi-experimental studies, systematic reviews on substantive criminological and criminal justice issues, and methodological papers on experimentation and systematic review. The journal encourages submissions from scholars in the broad array of scientific disciplines that are concerned with criminology as well as crime and justice problems.