Correlates of Visitation in a Men's Prison

Jackson, Penny; Templer, Donald I.; Reimer, Wilbert; LeBaron, David

doi:10.1177/0306624x9704100108

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“…Second, greater distances may reduce inmate visitation and support from families, friends, and community. Visitation research, for example, has found that greater distances make it difficult for inmates to maintain ties with family and community members (Christian, 2005; Cochran, Mears, Bales, & Stewart, 2015; Fuller, 1993; Gordon, 1999; Hairston, 2003; Jackson, Templer, Reimer, & LeBaron, 1997; Naser & Visher, 2006). In turn, inmates may feel more isolated (Drago, Galbiati, & Vertova, 2011; Evans, 2006) and less able to negotiate the many challenges that accompany incarceration (Adams, 1992; Bottoms, 1999).…”

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In Prison and Far From Home: Spatial Distance Effects on Inmate Misconduct

Lindsey

Mears

Cochran

et al. 2015

Crime & Delinquency

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Drawing on theory and research on prisoner behavior, this study examines whether spatial distance from home influences inmates' likelihood of engaging in misconduct. Three hypotheses are developed: distally placed inmates will engage in more misconduct, distance will have a greater effect on misconduct among younger inmates, and visitation will mediate these relationships. We test the hypotheses using negative binomial regression analyses of data from the Florida Department of Corrections (N = 33,853). Support for the hypotheses is mixed. A curvilinear relationship between distance and misconduct was identified, with a positive effect on misconduct for distances up to 350 miles and a negative effect thereafter. Distance effects were greater for younger inmates and were partially mediated by visitation. Implications of the findings are discussed.

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In Prison and Far From Home: Spatial Distance Effects on Inmate Misconduct

Lindsey

Mears

Cochran

et al. 2015

Crime & Delinquency

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“…We use the distance from next of kin to the prison as an instrument, because previous research has established that when prisoners are closer to home they are more likely to be visited (Jackson et al, 1997). This approach assumes that distance to home has no other effect on recidivism that is not accounted for by observed covariates-notably the effects of a particular prison's characteristics (prison fixed effects).…”

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Instrumental Variable Methods using Dynamic Interventions

Mauro

Kennedy

Nagin

2020

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society

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Recent work on dynamic interventions has greatly expanded the range of causal questions that researchers can study. Simultaneously, this work has weakened identifying assumptions, yielding effects that are more practically relevant. Most work in dynamic interventions to date has focused on settings where we directly alter some unconfounded treatment of interest. In policy analysis, decision makers rarely have this level of control over behaviours or access to experimental data. Instead, they are often faced with treatments that they can affect only indirectly and whose effects must be learned from observational data. We propose new estimands and estimators of causal effects based on dynamic interventions with instrumental variables. This method does not rely on parametric models and does not require an experiment. Instead, we estimate the effect of treatment induced by a dynamic intervention on an instrument. This robustness should reassure policy makers that these estimates can be used to inform policy effectively. We demonstrate the usefulness of this estimation strategy in a case-study examining the effect of visitation on recidivism.

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“…Several prior studies have explored the relationship between distance and prison visitation. In a study examining prison visitation in Nevada, Jackson, Templer, Reimer, and LeBaron (1997) administered a survey to 212 prisoners that included an item asking respondents whether the place they call home is within the state or outside of Nevada. Although it is not clear how distance was measured in this study, Jackson et al (1997) reported that offenders incarcerated at facilities more distant from their homes were less likely to be visited.…”

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Distance Matters

Clark

Duwe

2016

Criminal Justice and Behavior

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One of the untested assumptions within the prison visitation literature is that inmates receive fewer visits when visitors must travel long distances to prisons. Measuring distance by comparing the addresses of the prisons where offenders were confined with the residential addresses of those who visited them, we tested this hypothesis by estimating the effects of distance on the number of times Minnesota prisoners were visited. We estimated the effects of distance by performing multilevel repeated measure analyses, measuring the frequency of visitation across the different facilities at which inmates were housed, the different neighborhoods from which they received visits, and between-inmate differences in visitation frequency. Besides distance, we also estimated the effects of social disorganization on the frequency of visitation. Finding that distance does indeed decrease the frequency of prison visitation, as does concentrated disadvantage in neighborhoods, we discuss the implications of this research for prison administrative policies.

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Correlates of Visitation in a Men's Prison

Cited by 21 publications

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In Prison and Far From Home: Spatial Distance Effects on Inmate Misconduct

In Prison and Far From Home: Spatial Distance Effects on Inmate Misconduct

Instrumental Variable Methods using Dynamic Interventions

Distance Matters

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