Here is my body of research. The DOIs are hyperlinked to the title.
Kreager, Derek A., Yiwen Zhang, Jacob T.N. Young,
and Julia Dillavou. In Press. Sexuality,
Social Organization, and Health in a Women’s Prison.
Incarceration.
Wenger, Marin R, Jacob T.N. Young, and Corey
Whichard. In Press. An
Unbridgeable Gap? Racial Attitudes and Friendship in Prison.
Race and Justice.
Simonds, Raven, Natasha Khade, and Jacob T.N. Young.
In Press. Does
Paid Transitional Housing Impact Reentry Outcomes During COVID-19
Stay-at-Home Orders? Evidence from a Natural Experiment Within an
RCT. The International Journal of Housing Policy.
Young, Jacob T.N., Travis J. Meyers, Stephanie J.
Morse. 2023. What is ‘prison culture’?: Developing
a Theoretical and Methodological Foundation for Understanding Cultural
Schema in Prison. Criminology, 61(3), 451-448.
Wright, Kevin. A., Jacob T.N. Young, Caitlin G.
Matekel, Arynn A. Infante, Faith E. Gifford, Travis J. Meyers, and
Stephanie J. Morse. In Press. Solitary
Confinement and the Well-Being of People in Prison. Social
Science Medicine.
Tomlinson, Tiffaney A., Daniel P. Mears, Brian J. Stults, Ryan C.
Meldrum, Jillian J. Turanovic and Jacob T.N. Young.
2023. The
Legacy of Troubled Childhoods: Adverse Childhood Experiences, Sleep, and
Delinquency. Crime & Delinquency, , 69(10),
1919-1946.
Young, Jacob T.N. and Dana L. Haynie. 2022. Trusting
the Untrustworthy: The Social Organization of Trust among Incarcerated
Women. Justice Quarterly, 39 (3), 553-584.
Meldrum, Ryan C., Justin W. Patchin, Jacob T.N.
Young, and Sameer Hinduja. 2022. Bullying
Victimization, Negative Emotions, and Digital Self-Harm: Testing a
Theoretical Model of Indirect Effects. Deviant Behavior, 43
(3), 303-321.
Kreager, Derek A., Jacob T.N. Young, Dana L. Haynie,
David R. Schaefer, Martin Bouchard, and Kimberly M. Davidson. 2021. In
the Eye of the Beholder: Meaning and Structure of Informal Status in
Women’s and Men’s Prisons. Criminology. 59 (1),
42-72.
Ready, Justin T. and Jacob T.N. Young. 2020. The
Unfulfilled Potential of Police Body Cameras in the Era of Black Lives
Matter. Slate.
Davidson, Kimberly M. and Jacob T.N. Young. 2019. Treatment Engagement
in a Prison-Based Therapeutic Community: A Mixed-Methods Approach.
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, 103 (August):
33-42.
Meldrum, Ryan C., Jacob T.N. Young, Nicholas Kavish,
and Brian B. Boutwell. 2019. Could Peers Influence
Intelligence During Adolescence? An Exploratory Study.
Intelligence, 72: 28-34.
Young, Jacob T.N., Scott H. Decker, and Gary
Sweeten. 2018. The
Boston Special Youth Project Affiliation Dataset.
Connections, 37(1&2): 85-88.
Shjarback, John A. and Jacob T.N. Young. 2018. The
‘Tough on Crime’ Arms Race: A Network Approach to Understanding the
Social Mechanisms Leading to the Rise of Federal Crime Control
Legislation in the United States from 1973-2004. American
Journal of Criminal Justice, 43(2): 197-221.
Kreager, Derek A., Martin Bouchard, George De Leon, David R.
Schaefer, Michaela Soyer, Jacob T.N. Young, and Gary
Zajac. 2018. A
Life Course and Networks Approach to Prison Therapeutic Communities.
Social Networks and the Life Course, Eds. Duane F. Alwin, Diane H.
Felmlee, and Derek A. Kreager. Pg. 433-451. New York: Springer.
Young, Jacob T.N. and Justin T. Ready. 2018. A
Longitudinal Analysis of the Relationship between Administrative Policy,
Technological Preferences, and Body-Worn Camera Activation Among Police
Officers. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice,
12(1): 27-42.
Boutwell, Brian A., Jacob T.N. Young, and Ryan C. Meldrum. 2018. On the Positive Relationship between Breastfeeding and Intelligence. Developmental Psychology, 54(8):1426-1433.
Meyers, Travis J. and Kevin A. Wright, Jacob T.N.
Young, and Melinda Tasca. 2017. Social
Support from Outside the Walls: Examining the Role of Relationship
Dynamics with Prison Visitors. Journal of Criminal Justice,
52: 57-67.
Schaefer, David R., Martin Bouchard, Jacob T.N.
Young, and Derek A. Kreager. 2017. Friends in Locked
Places: An Investigation of Prison Inmate Network Structure.
Social Networks, 51: 88-103.
Kreager, Derek A., Jacob T.N. Young, Dana L. Haynie,
Martin Bouchard, and Gary Zajac. 2017. Where
‘Old Heads’ Prevail: Inmate Hierarchy in a Men’s Prison Unit.
American Sociological Review, 82(4): 685-718.
Fahmy, Chantal and Jacob T.N. Young. 2017. Gender
Inequality in Knowledge Production in Criminology and Criminal
Justice. Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 28(2):
285-305.
Meldrum, Ryan C., Melissa A. Petkovsek, Brian B. Boutwell, and
Jacob T.N. Young. 2017. Reassessing
the Relationship between General Intelligence and Self-Control in
Childhood. Intelligence, 60(1):1-9.
Turanovic, Jillian J. and Jacob T.N. Young. 2016. Violent
Offending and Victimization in Adolescence: Social Network Mechanisms
and Homophily. Criminology, 54(3): 487-519.
Hoeben, Evelien M., Ryan C. Meldrum, D’Andre Walker, and
Jacob T.N. Young. 2016. The
Role of Peer Delinquency and Unstructured Socializing in Explaining
Delinquency and Substance Use: A State-of-the-Art Review.
Journal of Criminal Justice, 47: 108-122.
Kreager, Derek A., David R. Schaefer, Martin Bouchard, Dana L.
Haynie, Sara Wakefield, Jacob T.N. Young, and Gary
Zajac. 2016. Toward
a Criminology of Inmate Networks. Justice Quarterly, 33(6):
1000-1028.
Flexon, Jamie L., Ryan C. Meldrum, Jacob T.N. Young,
and Peter Lehmann. 2016. Low
Self-Control and the Dark Triad: Disentangling the Predictive Power of
Personality Traits on Young Adult Substance Use, Offending, and
Victimization. Journal of Criminal Justice, 46:
159-169.
Ready, Justin, and Jacob T.N. Young. 2015. The
Impact of On-Officer Video Cameras on Police-Citizen Contacts: Findings
from a Controlled Field Experiment. Journal of Experimental
Criminology, 11: 445-458.
Chantal, Fahmy and Jacob T.N. Young. 2015. Invisible
Colleagues: The Informal Organization of Knowledge Production in
Criminology and Criminal Justice. Journal of Criminal Justice
Education, 26(4): 423-445.
Meldrum, Ryan C., Jacob T.N. Young, and Peter
Lehmann. 2015. Parental
Low Self-Control, Parental Socialization, Young Adult Low Self-Control,
and Offending: A Retrospective Study. Criminal Justice and
Behavior, 42(11): 1183-1199.
Corcoran, Katie, David Pettinicchio, and Jacob T.N.
Young. 2015. Perceptions
of Societal Injustice and Efficacy: Participation in Low/High Cost Forms
of Collection Action. Sociological Inquiry, 85(3):
429-461.
Young, Jacob T.N. and Justin Ready. 2015. Diffusion
of Policing Technology: The Role of Networks in Influencing the
Endorsement and Use of On-Officer Cameras. Journal of
Contemporary Criminal Justice, 31(3): 243-261.
Young, Jacob T.N., Cesar J. Rebellon, J.C. Barnes,
and Frank M. Weerman. 2015. What
do Alternative Measures of Peer Behavior Tell Us? Examining the
Discriminant Validity of Multiple Methods of Measuring Peer Deviance and
the Implications for Etiological Models. Justice Quarterly,
32(4): 626-652.
Rees, Carter and Jacob T.N. Young. 2015. Parents,
Peers, and Socialization to Institutions in Childhood and Adolescence:
Implications for Delinquent Behavior. The Nurture versus Biosocial
Debate in Criminology, Ed. Kevin Beaver, Pg. 283-300. Thousand
Oaks.
Ready, Justin T. and Jacob T.N. Young. 2014. A
Tale of Two Cities: Whether body cams succeed in increasing police
transparency depends entirely on training and policies.
Slate.
Ready, Justin T. and Jacob T.N. Young. 2014. Three
Myths about Police Body Cams: Filming interactions between law
enforcement and citizens might not stop the next Ferguson from
happening. Slate.
Young, Jacob T.N., Cesar Rebellon, J.C. Barnes, and
Frank M. Weerman. 2014. Unpacking
the Black Box of Peer Similarity in Deviance: Understanding the
Mechanisms Linking Personal Behavior, Peer Behavior, and
Perceptions. Criminology, 52(1): 60-86.
Barnes, J.C., Kevin M. Beaver, Jacob T.N. Young and
Michael TenEyck. 2014. A
Behavior Genetic Analysis of the Tendency for Youth to Associate
According to GPA. Social Networks, 38: 41-49.
Young, Jacob T.N. 2014. A
Sensitivity Analysis of Egocentric Measures of Peer Delinquency to
Latent Homophily: A Research Note. Journal of Quantitative
Criminology, 30(3): 373-387.
Young, Jacob T. N. 2014. Role
Magnets’?: An Empirical Investigation of Popularity Trajectories for
Life-Course Persistent Individuals During Adolescence. Journal
of Youth and Adolescence, 43(1):104-115.
Boman, IV, John H., Jacob T.N. Young, Julie M.
Baldwin, and Ryan C. Meldrum. 2014. Specifying the Sources of
Misperceptions of Peer Deviance: A Tale of Two Levels. Criminal
Justice and Behavior, 41(1): 91-113.
Young, Jacob T.N. and Frank M. Weerman. 2013. Delinquency
as a Consequence of Misperception: Overestimation of Friends’ Delinquent
Behavior and Mechanisms of Social Influence. Social
Problems, 60(3):334-356.
Meldrum, Ryan C., Jacob T.N. Young, Callie Burt, and
Alex R. Piquero. 2013. Maternal
Versus Adolescent Reports of Self-Control: Implications for Testing the
General Theory of Crime. Journal of Criminal Justice,
41(1): 24-32.
Young, Jacob T.N. and Carter Rees. 2013. Social
Networks and Delinquency in Adolescence: Implications for Life-Course
Criminology. Handbook of Life-Course Criminology, Ed. Chris Gibson
and Marvin Krohn, pg. 159-180. Springer.
Meldrum, Ryan C., Jacob T.N. Young, and Frank M.
Weerman. 2012. Changes
in Self-Control During Adolescence: Investigating the Influence of the
Adolescent Peer Network. Journal of Criminal Justice,
40(6): 452-462.
Meldrum, Ryan C., Jacob T.N. Young, Carter Hay, and
Jamie L. Flexon. 2012. Does
Self-Control Influence Maternal Attachment? A Reciprocal Effects
Analysis from Childhood through Middle Adolescence. Journal of
Quantitative Criminology, 38(4): 673-699.
Young, Jacob T.N., J.C. Barnes, Ryan C. Meldrum, and
Frank M. Weerman. 2011. Assessing
and Explaining Misperceptions of Peer Delinquency.
Criminology, 49(2): 599-630.
Corcoran, Katie, David Pettinicchio, and Jacob T.N.
Young. 2011. The
Context of Control: A Cross-National Investigation of the Link between
Social Structure, Fatalism, and Collective Action. British
Journal of Social Psychology, 50 (4): 575-605. Special Issue:
“Innovation in Theory and Research on Collective Action and Social
Change”.
Young, Jacob T. N. 2011. How
Do They ‘End Up Together’? A Social Network Analysis of Self-Control,
Homophily, and Adolescent Relationships. Journal of Quantitative
Criminology, 27(3):251-273.
Meldrum, Ryan C., Jacob T.N. Young, and Frank M.
Weerman. 2009. Reconsidering
the Effect of Self-Control and Delinquent Peers: Implications of
Measurement for Theoretical Significance. Journal of Research in
Crime and Delinquency, 46(3): 353-376.