The origins and contours of inmate social organization were once central research areas
that stalled just as incarceration rates dramatically climbed. In this review, we return to …

Although jails are both common and consequential, affecting millions of individuals
annually, they are a relatively understudied aspect of the criminal justice system. In this …

We propose a more explicit role for abductive reasoning, or the development of initial
explanation, in hypothetico-deductive (HD) inquiry. We begin by describing the roots of …

" Certainly, prisons are dangerous places that impact the communities as well as the lives of
inmates and those who work there. Over the last several years, prison gangs have made …

Recent research on start-up accelerators has drawn attention to the central importance of
social resource exchange among peers for entrepreneurial success. But such peer …

A network approach helps us better specify and model collaboration among people involved
in organized crime. The focus on collaboration raises the boundary specification problem …

In this article, we conjoin two long‐standing lines of inquiry in criminology—the study of
prison life and the study of sexual assault—by using original qualitative and quantitative …

Despite societal dependence on digital technologies and the Internet across the developed
world, current prisoner rehabilitation, reentry models, and practices across most US state …

This paper finds qualified support for the use of Skarbek's (2011, 2014) governance theory
to understand the emergence of prison gang-like groups in Kyrgyzstan, Northern Ireland and …

This study shows that residual variation can cause problems related to scaling in
exponential random graph models (ERGM). Residual variation is likely to exist when there …