Objectives

The current study examines the influence of gang affiliation and specific gangs on prison misconduct, particularly serious and assaultive behavior.

Methods

Different matching procedures were employed with a large sample of gang and nongang inmates to minimize confounding factors likely to impact the effect of gang affiliation on outcome measures. A wide array of demographic variables associated with gang affiliation is included in multivariate analyses in predicting general, serious, and assaultive acts.

Results

Propensity Score Matching (PSM) and Coarsened Exact Matching (CEM) generally yielded similar results. Consistent with prior research, gang-affiliated inmates committed significantly higher rates of general and serious violations.

Conclusions

Researchers may prefer PSM over CEM when analyzing serious and rare behaviors. Prison gang affiliation is a significant contributing factor to various prison disciplinary outcomes, and specific gang affiliation significantly influences disciplinary outcomes.

中文翻译：

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帮派关系与监狱暴力：匹配分析的比较

目标

目前的研究探讨了帮派隶属关系和特定帮派对监狱不当行为，特别是严重和攻击性行为的影响。

方法

对大量帮派和非帮派囚犯样本采用了不同的匹配程序，以最大程度地减少可能影响帮派归属对结果测量影响的混杂因素。与帮派隶属关系相关的各种人口统计变量都包含在预测一般、严重和攻击行为的多变量分析中。

结果

倾向得分匹配 (PSM) 和粗化精确匹配 (CEM) 通常会产生相似的结果。与之前的研究一致，与帮派有关联的囚犯犯下一般和严重违法行为的比率要高得多。

结论

在分析严重和罕见的行为时，研究人员可能更喜欢 PSM 而不是 CEM。监狱帮派隶属关系是各种监狱纪律结果的重要影响因素，而具体的帮派隶属关系对纪律结果有显着影响。