Feminist criminology in an era of misogyny*
AbstractIn this address I make the case for continuing to focus criminological research on gender, sexism, and racism within our lives and within our profession. I also provide a brief case study of a topic many would feel falls well outside our field: reproductive rights. Data are reviewed to reveal the impact of gender on the lives of women —notably the devaluation of work done by women, particularly if the work is deemed feminist. Afterward, recent data on the persistence of both sexism and racism in our field are reviewed. Despite gains made by women (notably in the membership of the field), the highest positions in ...
Source: Criminology - May 11, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Meda Chesney ‐Lind Tags: 2019 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY Source Type: research
Continuing education: Toward a life ‐course perspective on social learning*
AbstractSutherland's differential association theory and the life ‐course perspective have at times been conceptualized as contrasting theories of criminal behavior. I argue instead that our understanding of delinquency, the dynamics underlying criminal persistence and desistance, and intergenerational patterns will be enhanced by a more explicit integration of these two traditions. I focus on family processes as these are foundational intimate relationships that remain underappreciated as a source of lifelong learning and influence. Although family support and variations in parental supervision have been amply investiga...
Source: Criminology - April 28, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Peggy C. Giordano Tags: THE 2019 SUTHERLAND ADDRESS Source Type: research
Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization: A partial test of rational choice theory*
AbstractIn prior tests of Beckerian rational choice theory, the notion that individuals are responsive to the (dis)incentives associated with crime has been supported. Much of this research has comprised composite scores of perceived rewards and risks of multiple, often disparate, crime types that are then used to predict “general” offending behavior. Although the results of such prior tests are informative, we believe that this tendency has resulted in two shortcomings. First, a central component of mathematical rational choice theory is overlooked, namely, that responsivity to incentives will be crime specific. That ...
Source: Criminology - April 11, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Kyle J. Thomas,
Thomas A. Loughran,
Benjamin C. Hamilton Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Long ‐term consequences of being placed in disciplinary segregation*
AbstractBeing placed in restrictive housing is considered one of the most devastating experiences a human can endure, yet a scant amount of research has been conducted to test how this experience affects core indicators of prisoner reentry such as employment and recidivism. In this article, we use Danish registry data, which allow for us to link penal conditions to postrelease outcomes, to show how the reentry outcomes of individuals placed in disciplinary segregation, which is placement in restrictive housing because of disciplinary infractions, compare with those sanctioned for in ‐prison offenses but not placed in seg...
Source: Criminology - March 13, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Christopher Wildeman,
Lars H øjsgaard Andersen Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Long ‐term consequences of being placed in disciplinary segregation†
AbstractBeing placed in restrictive housing is considered one of the most devastating experiences a human can endure, yet a scant amount of research has been conducted to test how this experience affects core indicators of prisoner reentry such as employment and recidivism. In this article, we use Danish registry data, which allow for us to link penal conditions to postrelease outcomes, to show how the reentry outcomes of individuals placed in disciplinary segregation, which is placement in restrictive housing because of disciplinary infractions, compare with those sanctioned for in ‐prison offenses but not placed in seg...
Source: Criminology - March 11, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Christopher Wildeman,
Lars H øjsgaard Andersen Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Long ‐term consequences of being placed in disciplinary segregation
AbstractBeing placed in restrictive housing is considered one of the most devastating experiences a human can endure, yet a scant amount of research has been conducted to test how this experience affects core indicators of prisoner reentry such as employment and recidivism. In this article, we use Danish registry data, which allow for us to link penal conditions to postrelease outcomes, to show how the reentry outcomes of individuals placed in disciplinary segregation, which is placement in restrictive housing because of disciplinary infractions, compare with those sanctioned for in ‐prison offenses but not placed in seg...
Source: Criminology - March 11, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Christopher Wildeman,
Lars H øjsgaard Andersen Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Long ‐term consequences of being placed in disciplinary segregation*
AbstractBeing placed in restrictive housing is considered one of the most devastating experiences a human can endure, yet a scant amount of research has been conducted to test how this experience affects core indicators of prisoner reentry such as employment and recidivism. In this article, we use Danish registry data, which allow for us to link penal conditions to postrelease outcomes, to show how the reentry outcomes of individuals placed in disciplinary segregation, which is placement in restrictive housing because of disciplinary infractions, compare with those sanctioned for in ‐prison offenses but not placed in seg...
Source: Criminology - March 11, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Christopher Wildeman,
Lars H øjsgaard Andersen Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Institutional anomie and cross ‐national differences in incarceration*
AbstractMessner and Rosenfeld's (2007) institutional anomie theory (IAT) has mainly been applied by criminologists to explain crime rates at various aggregate levels. However, Messner and Rosenfeld also suggest that the same social and cultural forces that lead to high crime may explain differences in punishment, although this latter proposition has yet to be subject to empirical testing. Using a variety of data sources for 41 countries measuring various structural and cultural configurations, in this study we assess the extent to which IAT can explain cross ‐national differences in incarceration. Our results indicate th...
Source: Criminology - March 10, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Douglas B. Weiss,
Alexander Testa,
Mateus Renn ó Santos Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Institutional anomie and cross ‐national differences in incarceration†
AbstractMessner and Rosenfeld's (2007) institutional anomie theory (IAT) has mainly been applied by criminologists to explain crime rates at various aggregate levels. However, Messner and Rosenfeld also suggest that the same social and cultural forces that lead to high crime may explain differences in punishment, although this latter proposition has yet to be subject to empirical testing. Using a variety of data sources for 41 countries measuring various structural and cultural configurations, in this study we assess the extent to which IAT can explain cross ‐national differences in incarceration. Our results indicate th...
Source: Criminology - March 8, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Douglas B. Weiss,
Alexander Testa,
Mateus Renn ó Santos Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Institutional anomie and cross ‐national differences in incarceration
AbstractMessner and Rosenfeld's (2007) institutional anomie theory (IAT) has mainly been applied by criminologists to explain crime rates at various aggregate levels. However, Messner and Rosenfeld also suggest that the same social and cultural forces that lead to high crime may explain differences in punishment, although this latter proposition has yet to be subject to empirical testing. Using a variety of data sources for 41 countries measuring various structural and cultural configurations, in this study we assess the extent to which IAT can explain cross ‐national differences in incarceration. Our results indicate th...
Source: Criminology - March 8, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Douglas B. Weiss,
Alexander Testa,
Mateus Renn ó Santos Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Institutional anomie and cross ‐national differences in incarceration*
AbstractMessner and Rosenfeld's (2007) institutional anomie theory (IAT) has mainly been applied by criminologists to explain crime rates at various aggregate levels. However, Messner and Rosenfeld also suggest that the same social and cultural forces that lead to high crime may explain differences in punishment, although this latter proposition has yet to be subject to empirical testing. Using a variety of data sources for 41 countries measuring various structural and cultural configurations, in this study we assess the extent to which IAT can explain cross ‐national differences in incarceration. Our results indicate th...
Source: Criminology - March 8, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Douglas B. Weiss,
Alexander Testa,
Mateus Renn ó Santos Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Race and policing in the 2016 presidential election: Black lives matter, the police, and dog whistle politics
AbstractA series of deaths of Black Americans at the hands of the police sparked mass protests, received extensive media coverage, and fueled a new civil rights movement in the years leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Both major party nominees campaigned on issues of race and policing in different ways. Drawing on colorblind racism theories and the history of law ‐and‐order politics, we explore how views of race relations and the police were associated with voting behavior. We ask, on the one hand, whether people were engaged with the civil rights issues raised by Black Lives Matter and, on the other hand, w...
Source: Criminology - February 20, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Kevin Drakulich,
Kevin H. Wozniak,
John Hagan,
Devon Johnson Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
“I was a homo thug, now I'm just homo”: Gay gang members’ desistance and persistence*
In this study, I use in‐depth interviews with 48 self‐iden tified gay male gang members to explore how and why they have desisted from or persisted in their gangs, as well as explore how desistance or persistence has affected their self‐perceptions, lives, and activities. Because not all have left their gangs, I examine the markers in young men's narrativ es that signal shifts away from—but sometimes also toward—their gangs, as well as their zigzagging paths out of gang involvement. As gang structure and composition hold importance for their members’ experiences, I use a comparative approach by contrasting men ...
Source: Criminology - February 20, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Vanessa R. Panfil Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Race and policing in the 2016 presidential election: Black lives matter, the police, and dog whistle politics
AbstractA series of deaths of Black Americans at the hands of the police sparked mass protests, received extensive media coverage, and fueled a new civil rights movement in the years leading up to the 2016 presidential election. Both major party nominees campaigned on issues of race and policing in different ways. Drawing on colorblind racism theories and the history of law ‐and‐order politics, we explore how views of race relations and the police were associated with voting behavior. We ask, on the one hand, whether people were engaged with the civil rights issues raised by Black Lives Matter and, on the other hand, w...
Source: Criminology - February 17, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Kevin Drakulich,
Kevin H. Wozniak,
John Hagan,
Devon Johnson Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
“I was a homo thug, now I'm just homo”: Gay gang members’ desistance and persistence*
In this study, I use in‐depth interviews with 48 self‐iden tified gay male gang members to explore how and why they have desisted from or persisted in their gangs, as well as explore how desistance or persistence has affected their self‐perceptions, lives, and activities. Because not all have left their gangs, I examine the markers in young men's narrativ es that signal shifts away from—but sometimes also toward—their gangs, as well as their zigzagging paths out of gang involvement. As gang structure and composition hold importance for their members’ experiences, I use a comparative approach by contrasting men ...
Source: Criminology - February 17, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Vanessa R. Panfil Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
