Derek Kreager

Derek Kreager

Penn State University

H-index: 28

North America-United States

About Derek Kreager

Derek Kreager, With an exceptional h-index of 28 and a recent h-index of 24 (since 2020), a distinguished researcher at Penn State University, specializes in the field of Incarceration, Delinquency, Social Networks, Romantic Relationships.

His recent articles reflect a diverse array of research interests and contributions to the field:

Adverse effects of criminal legal system involvement: a qualitative study examining the role of incarceration and reentry on substance use trajectories among women with opioid …

Sexuality, social organization, and health in a women's prison

Dating and friendships in adolescence: Variation across same‐sex and other‐sex romantic partners

Dating, Sexuality, and Adolescent Friendship Networks

Impulsivity, peers, and delinquency: A dynamic social network approach

Similarity of friends versus nonfriends in adolescence: Developmental patterns and ecological influences.

Keeping to the code: How local norms of friendship and dating inform macro-structures of adolescents’ romantic networks

Charting the hidden City: Collecting prison social network data

Derek Kreager Information

University

Position

Professor of Criminology and Sociology

Citations(all)

4592

Citations(since 2020)

2259

Cited By

3221

hIndex(all)

28

hIndex(since 2020)

24

i10Index(all)

47

i10Index(since 2020)

45

Email

University Profile Page

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Derek Kreager Skills & Research Interests

Incarceration

Delinquency

Social Networks

Romantic Relationships

Top articles of Derek Kreager

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Journal

Author(s)

Publication Date

Adverse effects of criminal legal system involvement: a qualitative study examining the role of incarceration and reentry on substance use trajectories among women with opioid …

BMC Global and Public Health

Sienna Strong-Jones

Kristina Brant

Derek Kreager

Eric Harrison

Abenaa Jones

2024/5/1

Sexuality, social organization, and health in a women's prison

Incarceration

Derek A Kreager

Yiwen Zhang

Jacob TN Young

Julia Dillavou

2024/4

Dating and friendships in adolescence: Variation across same‐sex and other‐sex romantic partners

Journal of Research on Adolescence

Rose Wesche

Derek A Kreager

Nayan G Ramirez

Shivangi Gupta

2023/12

Dating, Sexuality, and Adolescent Friendship Networks

Nayan G Ramirez

Rose Wesche

Derek A Kreager

2024

Impulsivity, peers, and delinquency: A dynamic social network approach

Journal of Quantitative Criminology

Daniel T Ragan

D Wayne Osgood

Derek A Kreager

2023/9

Similarity of friends versus nonfriends in adolescence: Developmental patterns and ecological influences.

Developmental Psychology

D Wayne Osgood

Daniel T Ragan

Jenna L Dole

Derek A Kreager

2022/7

Keeping to the code: How local norms of friendship and dating inform macro-structures of adolescents’ romantic networks

Social Networks

Cassie McMillan

Derek A Kreager

René Veenstra

2022/7/1

Charting the hidden City: Collecting prison social network data

Social Networks

Corey Whichard

David R Schaefer

Derek A Kreager

2022/5/1

Mothers inside and out? Pseudo-families and motherhood in a women’s prison

Crime & Delinquency

Julia Dillavou

Derek A Kreager

Theodore Greenfelder

Yiwen Zhang

2022/1/1

Social organization in prison: A social network analysis of interpersonal relationships among Dutch prisoners

Justice Quarterly

Miranda Sentse

Derek A Kreager

Anouk Q Bosma

Paul Nieuwbeerta

Hanneke Palmen

2021/9/19

In the eye of the beholder: Meaning and structure of informal status in women's and men's prisons

Criminology

Derek A Kreager

Jacob TN Young

Dana L Haynie

David R Schaefer

Martin Bouchard

...

2021/2

Understanding incarceration and re-entry experiences of female inmates and their children: The women’s prison inmate networks study

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

Theodore Greenfelder

Dana L Haynie

Derek A Kreager

Sara Wakefield

Sam Nur

...

2021

Collecting Social Network Data in Prison and during Reentry: A Field Guide

Corey Whichard

Sara Wakefield

Derek A Kreager

2020/5/5

Embeddedness, reflected appraisals, and deterrence: A symbolic interactionist theory of adolescent theft

Ross L Matsueda

Kate K O’Neill

Derek A Kreager

2020/4/23

Friendships, perceived popularity, and adolescent romantic relationship debut

The Journal of Early Adolescence

Rūta Savickaitė

Jan Kornelis Dijkstra

Derek Kreager

Katya Ivanova

René Veenstra

2020

New on the block: Analyzing network selection trajectories in a prison treatment program

American Sociological Review

David R Schaefer

Derek A Kreager

2020/8

Are feminine body weight norms different for black students or in black schools? Girls’ weight-related peer acceptance across racialized school contexts

Journal of health and social behavior

Molly A Martin

Tori Thomas

Gary J Adler Jr

Derek A Kreager

2020/6

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