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 Gangs on the Street, Gangs in Prison: Their Nature, Interrelationship, Control, and Re-Entry
Award Information
Awardee
              AZ Board of Regents on behalf of Arizona State University
Award #
              2014-MU-CX-0111
Funding Category
              Competitive
Location
                    Tempe, AZ
Congressional District
              9
Status
              Closed
Funding First Awarded
              2014
Total funding (to date)
              $840,807
Original Solicitation
              NIJ FY 14 Research on Gangs and Gang Violence
Description of original award (Fiscal Year 2014, $840,807)
The NIJ Working Group identified the transition between street and prison gangs, the use of advanced statistical analysis techniques, the use of secondary data to study gangs and improving the methods of measuring the effectiveness of prevention, intervention and deterrence programs as key issues. This project addresses those issues with a study that has three components. The first component involves the use of official records before, during and after release in three states (Ohio, Texas and Virginia) and is the primary activity of Phase II of this project. The second component of the study employs a pre-release survey of 800 gang and non-gang inmates in Texas in the week prior to release. The third component of the study involves the use of follow-up interviews at two points in time during Phase I of the project with those 800 inmates during their first year of release. Six month interviews will be initiated in Phase I but not completed until Phase II.
In Phase I of the project we will address gang activity in prison, the transition from prison to the street among gang members as well as gang and non-gang re-entry issues. Phase II will involve the assessment of prison misconduct and merge interview data with institutional records.
Our research is guided by five specific research questions.
1) What are the implications of street gang membership for affiliations in prison?
2) How are prison gangs, gang life and behavior different than gangs on the street?
3) What are the implications of prison gang membership for street gang membership following release from prison?
4) What are the implications of prison gang membership for recidivism and re-entry?
5) What programming approaches are likely to be more successful with gang members in prison and upon release? (This will be addressed directly in Phase II of the project).
We have a unique opportunity to study an important yet neglected area of gang policy and practice: the transition from prison to street (and for many back to prison). We have secured letters of cooperation from the Departments of Correction in Ohio, Texas and Virginia, have an experienced team of researchers with the range of skills necessary to complete this work, and will address the issues of policy, practice and programming that emerge from this study. ca/ncf



  
Grant-Funded Publications
        
                      The Residue of Imprisonment: Prisoner Reentry and Carceral Gang Spillover
                  Traumatic brain injury and mental health outcomes among recently incarcerated men
                  Procedural justice, legal orientations, and gang membership: Testing an alternative explanation to understand the gang-misconduct link
                  Survey research with gang and non-gang members in prison: Operational lessons from the LoneStar Project
                  The Prison and the Gang
                  First weeks out: Social support stability and health among formerly incarcerated men
                  Non-random Study Attrition: Assessing Correction Techniques and the Magnitude of Bias in a Longitudinal Study of Reentry from Prison
                  What if They Are All High-Risk for Attrition? Correlates of Retention in a Longitudinal Study of Reentry from Prison
                  Culture in prison, culture on the street: the convergence between the convict code and code of the street
                  Gang Affiliation and Prisoner Reentry: Discrete-Time Variation in Recidivism by Current, Former, and Non-Gang Status
                  Head injury in prison: Gang membership and the role of prison violence
                  The imprisonment-extremism nexus: Continuity and change in activism and radicalism intentions in a longitudinal study of prisoner reentry
                  Activism and Radicalism in Prison: Measurement and Correlates in a Large Sample of Inmates in Texas
                  Method to the Madness: Tracking and Interviewing Respondents in a Longitudinal Study of Prisoner Reentry
                  Criminal Crews, Codes, and Contexts: Differences and Similarities across the Code of the Street, Convict Code, Street Gangs, and Prison Gangs

  
Date Created: September 22, 2014
    
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