![]() ![]() Social connectedness is a broad construct that captures a sense of “interpersonal closeness to the social world in toto” ( Lee, Draper, and Lee 2001:310). ![]() The concept of community connectedness is largely drawn from social connectedness research, and informed by social identity theories from psychology. Understanding how connectedness changes during incarceration-and for whom-may afford strategies to promote adaptive changes in community connectedness and inform correctional policy and practice. Surprisingly limited research examines how inmates’ connectedness to these communities changes during incarceration. ![]() Specifically, increased connectedness to the criminal community just prior to release predicts recidivism in the first-year post-release, whereas increased connectedness to the community at large predicts positive community adjustment (e.g., employment, residential stability) during the first-year post-release ( Folk et al. But, do inmates also become psychologically more connected to the criminal community and less connected to the community at large during incarceration in jail? The possibility of such psychological shifts in connectedness during incarceration is important to evaluate, as recent research shows inmates’ community connectedness affects post-release functioning. By design, jails bring offenders into close physical proximity with one another and separate them from the community at large. ![]()
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