Journal
SOCIAL NETWORKS
Volume 69, Issue -, Pages 170-179Publisher
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.socnet.2019.09.005
Keywords
Data collection; Prison networks; Incarceration
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Funding
- National Science Foundation [1457193]
- National Institutes of Health [NIAAA 1R211AA023210]
- National Institute of Justice [2016-MU-MU-0011]
- Direct For Social, Behav & Economic Scie
- Divn Of Social and Economic Sciences [1457193] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This article discusses the importance of studying social networks among prisoners and argues that the challenges of collecting network data in the prison setting can be overcome by adapting methods. The article draws upon the experiences of the Prison Inmate Networks Study (PINS) in five Pennsylvania prisons to provide a framework for collecting network data in prisons.
Penologists have long emphasized the importance of studying social relationships among prisoners to understand how people adapt to confinement. While several penological traditions clearly implicate social networks as an explanatory mechanism, network methods have rarely been applied in prison research. We suspect that prison scholars have been slow to incorporate social networks into their research because of the challenges-both real and perceived-of collecting social network data in the prison setting. In this article, we argue that successfully collecting network data from prisoners can be achieved by carefully adapting methods to the peculiarities and constraints of the prison setting. We draw upon experiences from the Prison Inmate Networks Study (PINS) and its associated projects in five Pennsylvania prisons to construct a framework for understanding and overcoming the obstacles to network data collection in prisons.
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