When Neighbors Go to Jail: Impact on Attitudes About Formal and Informal Social Control
July 1999The Leon County (Florida) Neighborhoods and Crime Project is assessing the impact of incarceration rates on community disorganization and family and economic life to determine the relationship between direct and indirect exposure to the criminal justice system and attitudes toward social control. This NIJ Research Preview, When Neighbors Go to Jail: Impact on Attitudes About Formal and Informal Social Control, reports attitudinal differences between people who have been exposed to incarceration and those who have not and how they alter neighborhood life. One conclusion is that prison exposure does not condition attitudes toward social control.
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