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Criminal Careers and Communities in the United States

An Identity Network Perspective

Cynthia Baiqing Zhang and Meredith L. Ille

Gender, race, and community, and space all provide important filters for a person’s contact with the criminal justice system. Cynthia Baiqing Zhang and Meredith L. Ille analyze current and former inmates through interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys to better understand criminal behavior. This book is vital to understanding the course of a criminal career from the offense to the decision to desist from crime, and reentry into the community, as it reveals mechanisms through which inmates’ identities and social networks interact. This identity network perspective combines identity theory and social network analysis to better understand, predict, and mediate criminal behavior. This book is of interest to those studying criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and psychology.

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Lexington Books
Pages: 238 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-1-7936-4888-4 • Hardback • July 2023 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
978-1-7936-4889-1 • eBook • July 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
Subjects: Social Science / Criminology, Psychology / Social Psychology, Social Science / Sociology / General

Cynthia Baiqing Zhang is researcher with Evergreen Campus LLC.

Meredith L. Ille is doctoral student at the University of Oklahoma.

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Chapter 1: An Identity Network Perspective and Social Learning Theory

Chapter 2: General Displacement and Cognitive Breaking with a Criminal Career

Chapter 3: Rural Criminality: A Comparison and Contrast to the City

Chapter 4: Criminal, Family, and Community

Chapter 5: Identity Network Interplay and Spatial Reentry

Conclusion

Appendix A: Methods

Appendix B: A Method of Identity Network

Appendix C: Reasons for Choosing Pairwise and Listwise Deletion for Missing Data

Appendix D: Other Control Variables in “Spatial Reentry”

Appendix E: Interview Guide for Pilot Study

Appendix F: Survey Questionnaire for Pilot Study

Appendix G: Interview Guide for Wave 2

Appendix H: Survey Questionnaire for Wave 2

References

About the Authors

Even though rural criminology is growing in prominence within criminology, there are many theoretical and empirical gaps. Cynthia Baiqing Zhang and Meredith L. Ille's book on identity network theory advances our understanding of community characteristics and criminal careers in the context of both urban and rural places. In other words, rural context is not ignored but included within her scholarship on criminal careers. A truly welcomed addition to the literature in criminology!


— Joseph Donnermeyer, Ohio State University


Criminal Careers and Communities in the United States

An Identity Network Perspective

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Hardback
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Summary
Summary
  • Gender, race, and community, and space all provide important filters for a person’s contact with the criminal justice system. Cynthia Baiqing Zhang and Meredith L. Ille analyze current and former inmates through interviews, focus group discussions, and surveys to better understand criminal behavior. This book is vital to understanding the course of a criminal career from the offense to the decision to desist from crime, and reentry into the community, as it reveals mechanisms through which inmates’ identities and social networks interact. This identity network perspective combines identity theory and social network analysis to better understand, predict, and mediate criminal behavior. This book is of interest to those studying criminology, criminal justice, sociology, and psychology.

Details
Details
  • Lexington Books
    Pages: 238 • Trim: 6¼ x 9½
    978-1-7936-4888-4 • Hardback • July 2023 • $100.00 • (£77.00)
    978-1-7936-4889-1 • eBook • July 2023 • $45.00 • (£35.00)
    Subjects: Social Science / Criminology, Psychology / Social Psychology, Social Science / Sociology / General
Author
Author
  • Cynthia Baiqing Zhang is researcher with Evergreen Campus LLC.

    Meredith L. Ille is doctoral student at the University of Oklahoma.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments

    Introduction

    Chapter 1: An Identity Network Perspective and Social Learning Theory

    Chapter 2: General Displacement and Cognitive Breaking with a Criminal Career

    Chapter 3: Rural Criminality: A Comparison and Contrast to the City

    Chapter 4: Criminal, Family, and Community

    Chapter 5: Identity Network Interplay and Spatial Reentry

    Conclusion

    Appendix A: Methods

    Appendix B: A Method of Identity Network

    Appendix C: Reasons for Choosing Pairwise and Listwise Deletion for Missing Data

    Appendix D: Other Control Variables in “Spatial Reentry”

    Appendix E: Interview Guide for Pilot Study

    Appendix F: Survey Questionnaire for Pilot Study

    Appendix G: Interview Guide for Wave 2

    Appendix H: Survey Questionnaire for Wave 2

    References

    About the Authors

Reviews
Reviews
  • Even though rural criminology is growing in prominence within criminology, there are many theoretical and empirical gaps. Cynthia Baiqing Zhang and Meredith L. Ille's book on identity network theory advances our understanding of community characteristics and criminal careers in the context of both urban and rural places. In other words, rural context is not ignored but included within her scholarship on criminal careers. A truly welcomed addition to the literature in criminology!


    — Joseph Donnermeyer, Ohio State University


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