Mowen Thomas J, Boman John H
Thomas J. Mowen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Bowling Green State University. His research explores the impact of punishment on families and youth as well as the role and importance of family within the reentry process. John Boman is an Assistant Professor at Bowling Green State University in the Department of Sociology. His research is primarily focused on developmental issues, peers and social relationships through the life-course, and theory.
Justice Q. 2019;36(5):841-869. doi: 10.1080/07418825.2018.1439518. Epub 2018 Feb 27.
A large body of prior research has demonstrated a clear link between family support and desistance from substance use during reentry. Emerging research also suggests that family conflict may play an independent role in this process. Accordingly, this study moves towards an understanding of how baseline between-individual differences in both family support and conflict prior to release interact with within-individual change in the respective constructs to affect substance use during the reentry time period. Results of cross-lagged dynamic panel models examining four waves of the Serious and Violent Offender Reentry Initiative data demonstrate baseline between-individual differences and within-individual changes in family conflict, but not support, significantly relate to polysubstance use. While these results suggest that families play a criminogenic role in reentry, a series of interaction terms demonstrates that within-individual increases in family support can help offset the negative influence of family conflict.
大量先前的研究已经证明，家庭支持与重新融入社会期间停止物质使用之间存在明显联系。新出现的研究还表明，家庭冲突可能在这一过程中发挥独立作用。因此，本研究旨在了解释放前家庭支持和冲突方面个体间的基线差异如何与各自结构中个体内部的变化相互作用，从而影响重新融入社会期间的物质使用情况。对“严重暴力罪犯重新融入社会倡议”数据的四个波次进行交叉滞后动态面板模型分析的结果表明，个体间的基线差异以及家庭冲突（而非支持）方面的个体内部变化与多种物质使用显著相关。虽然这些结果表明家庭在重新融入社会过程中起到了促犯罪作用，但一系列交互项表明，个体内部家庭支持的增加有助于抵消家庭冲突的负面影响。
