Category: Social Networks and Crime

Kreager, D., Young,J., Haynie, D., Schaefer, D., Bouchard, M., Davidson, K. (2020). In the eye of the beholder: Meaning and structure of informal status in women’s and men’s prisons

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Applying an abductive mixed‐methods approach, we investigate the informal status systems in three women’s prison units (across two prisons) and one men’s prison unit. Qualitative analyses suggest “old head” narratives—where age, time in prison, sociability, and prison wisdom confer unit status—are prevalent across all four contexts. Perceptions of maternal “caregivers” and manipulative “bullies,” however, are…

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Schaefer, D. R., Davidson, K. M., Haynie, D. L., & Bouchard, M. (2020). Network integration within a prison-based therapeutic community. Social Networks, 64, 16-28.

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Prison-based therapeutic communities (TCs) are a widespread, effective way to help incarcerated individuals address substance abuse problems. The TC philosophy is grounded in an explicitly relational paradigm that entails building community and conditioning residents to increasingly take responsibility for leadership therein. Although TCs are based on cultivating a network that continuously integrates new residents, many…

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Reale, K. S., Bouchard, M., Lim, Y. L., Cook, A. N., & Hart, S. D. (2020). Are Psychopathic Traits Associated with Core Social Networks? An Exploratory Study in University Students. Social Psychology Quarterly, 1-20.

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In a sample of 480 university students, we examined associations between self-ratings of psychopathic traits, made using the Comprehensive Assessment of Psychopathic Personality (CAPP; Cooke et al. 2012), the Psychopathic Personality Inventory: Short Form (PPI: SF; Lilienfeld and Hess 2001), and self-ratings of the structure of their core social networks (i.e., best friends, intimates). Results…

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McCuish, E., Bouchard, M., & Beauregard, E. A. (2020). Network‑Based Examination of the Longitudinal Association Between Psychopathy and Offending Versatility. Journal of Quantitative Criminology.

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Objectives Concerns about the value of features of psychopathy to explanations of offending may be driven by challenges with testing this relationship as opposed to the construct’s limited predictive validity. The current study introduced psychopathology network modeling as an analytic strategy capable of addressing these challenges through a more nuanced description of the structural and…

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McCuish, E., Bouchard, M., Beauregard, E., & Corrado, R. (2019). A Network Approach to Understanding the Structure of Core Symptoms of Psychopathic Personality Disturbance in Adolescent Offenders. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 47(9), 1467-1482.

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A central aim of research on psychopathic personality disturbance (PPD) involves identifying core features of the construct. Such aims have been addressed primarily through prototypicality studies and research using item-response theory. More recently, the logic of social network analysis was extended to psychopathology research to examine which symptoms are most central to PPD networks. Such…

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Ouellet, M., Bouchard, M., & Charette, Y. (2019). One gang dies, another gains? The network dynamics of criminal group persistence. Criminology, 57(1), 5-33.

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What leads a minority of criminal groups to persist over time? Although most criminal groups are characterized by short life spans, a subset manages to survive extended periods. Contemporary research on criminal groups has been primarily descriptive and static, leaving important questions on the correlates of group persistence unanswered. By drawing from competing perspectives on…

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Kreager, D. A., Bouchard, M., De Leon, G., Schaefer, D. R., Soyer, M., Young, J. T., & Zajac, G. (2018). A Life Course and Networks Approach to Prison Therapeutic Communities. In D. F. Alwin, D. H. Helmlee, & D. A. Kreager (Eds.), Social Networks and the Life Course (pp. 433-451). Cham: Springer.

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Within criminology, life course theory and research have linked positive role transitions (e.g., marriage, parenthood, and employment) with criminal desistance over time. Simultaneously, studies suggest that high-risk offenders are unlikely to enter or remain committed to such transitions, challenging interventions based on life course principles. Prison-based therapeutic communities (TCs) offer a potential exception to this…

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Ouellet, M., & Bouchard, M. (2018). The 40 Members of the Toronto 18: Group Boundaries and the Analysis of Illicit Networks. Deviant Behavior, 39(11), 1467-1482.

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Increases in studies on the network dynamics of crime groups and co-offending has led many scholars to reflect on potential measurement biases arising from a reliance on official data sources. A problem of official data is that it forces boundaries on criminal groups that are much more fluid and dynamic than they seem. Drawing from…

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Nash, R., Bouchard, M., & Malm, A. (2018). Twisting trust: Social networks, due diligence, and loss of capital in a Ponzi scheme. Crime, Law and Social Change, 69(1), 67-89.

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This paper examines a pre-planned fraud which ran undetected for more than five years and deceived 2285 investors for $240 million. We seek to uncover the effects of trust in social ties and conducting due diligence on 1) an investor’s initial amount of investment and 2) their overall loss of capital. Using data from a…

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Bouchard, M., & Malm, A. (2017). Social Network Analysis and Its Contribution to Research on Crime and Criminal Justice. Oxford Handbooks Online Ed.

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This article discusses how the development of network analysis techniques has affected research on crime and the practice of crime control over the past two decades. It describes the contributions of network analysis to criminological research – the new questions that network analysis techniques allowed criminologists to address, the old questions that have been addressed…

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