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Paternal Incarceration and Adolescent Social Network Disadvantage
1Department of Sociology, Harvard University, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA, 02138, USA. briellebryan@fas.harvard.edu.
Demography
|July 14, 2017
Summary
Adolescents with incarcerated fathers experience social marginalization, befriending peers with similar disadvantages. This highlights how parental incarceration impacts adolescent social networks and promotes intergenerational marginalization.
Area of Science:
- Sociology
- Criminology
- Developmental Psychology
Background:
- Adolescent peer relationships are crucial for development, yet antecedents of social networks are understudied.
- Parental incarceration's collateral consequences are known for behavioral and academic issues, but not social network effects.
Purpose of the Study:
- To investigate how parental incarceration shapes adolescent social networks.
- To examine the social positioning and peer selection of adolescents with recently incarcerated fathers.
Main Methods:
- Utilized network data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health).
- Employed network analysis to assess social positions and characteristics of adolescent friends.
Main Results:
- Adolescents with recently incarcerated fathers occupy socially marginal positions in schools.
- These adolescents befriend peers who are also more marginalized, less academically successful, and more delinquent.
- Findings were consistent across racial and gender groups and robust to various specifications.
Conclusions:
- Familial characteristics, specifically father's incarceration, significantly shape adolescent social networks.
- Mass incarceration may perpetuate intergenerational social marginalization through its impact on adolescent peer networks.
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