Similarity between deviant peers: Developmental trends in influence and selection*
AbstractThe association between an adolescent's own behavior and that of his or her peers remains a key empirical finding in the study of delinquency, and this similarity is often explained in criminology by invoking processes of social influence and homophily. Adolescence is a period of rapid change for both individuals and their surroundings, however, and influence and homophily are often discussed without attending to their development over time. In the current study, I employ longitudinal social network models to estimate social influence and homophily related to alcohol and cigarette use and to determine whether there...
Source: Criminology - February 15, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Daniel T. Ragan Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Does contact with the justice system deter or promote future delinquency? Results from a longitudinal study of British adolescent twins
AbstractWhat impact does formal punishment have on antisocial conduct —does it deter or promote it? The findings from a long line of research on the labeling tradition indicate formal punishments have the opposite‐of‐intended consequence of promoting future misbehavior. In another body of work, the results show support for deterrence‐based hypotheses that puni shment deters future misbehavior. So, which is it? We draw on a nationally representative sample of British adolescent twins from the Environmental Risk (E‐Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study to perform a robust test of the deterrence versus labeling question. We...
Source: Criminology - February 14, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Ryan T. Motz,
J.C. Barnes,
Avshalom Caspi,
Louise Arseneault,
Francis T. Cullen,
Renate Houts,
Jasmin Wertz,
Terrie E. Moffitt Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Does it matter if those who matter don't mind? Effects of gang versus delinquent peer group membership on labeling processes
AbstractDespite renewed interests in the labeling perspective and the impact of official intervention on individuals ’ future outcomes, scant attention has been given to potential conditioning factors for theorized labeling processes. We argue that, when viewed through a symbolic interactionist lens, variations in the nature of primary social groups, through which individuals filter official labels like arrest, may generate patterns for subsequent self‐concept and delinquency that are contrary to what labeling theory indicates. To test our rationale, we offer a moderated mediation model in which gang membership is expe...
Source: Criminology - February 14, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Molly Buchanan,
Marvin D. Krohn Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Issue Information
Criminology, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 1-4, February 2020. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - February 14, 2020 Category: Criminology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Similarity between deviant peers: Developmental trends in influence and selection*
AbstractThe association between an adolescent's own behavior and that of his or her peers remains a key empirical finding in the study of delinquency, and this similarity is often explained in criminology by invoking processes of social influence and homophily. Adolescence is a period of rapid change for both individuals and their surroundings, however, and influence and homophily are often discussed without attending to their development over time. In the current study, I employ longitudinal social network models to estimate social influence and homophily related to alcohol and cigarette use and to determine whether there...
Source: Criminology - February 13, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Daniel T. Ragan Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Issue Information
Criminology, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 1-4, February 2020. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - February 9, 2020 Category: Criminology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Does it matter if those who matter don't mind? Effects of gang versus delinquent peer group membership on labeling processes
AbstractDespite renewed interests in the labeling perspective and the impact of official intervention on individuals ’ future outcomes, scant attention has been given to potential conditioning factors for theorized labeling processes. We argue that, when viewed through a symbolic interactionist lens, variations in the nature of primary social groups, through which individuals filter official labels like arrest, may generate patterns for subsequent self‐concept and delinquency that are contrary to what labeling theory indicates. To test our rationale, we offer a moderated mediation model in which gang membership is expe...
Source: Criminology - December 29, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Molly Buchanan,
Marvin D. Krohn Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Does contact with the justice system deter or promote future delinquency? Results from a longitudinal study of British adolescent twins
AbstractWhat impact does formal punishment have on antisocial conduct —does it deter or promote it? The findings from a long line of research on the labeling tradition indicate formal punishments have the opposite‐of‐intended consequence of promoting future misbehavior. In another body of work, the results show support for deterrence‐based hypotheses that puni shment deters future misbehavior. So, which is it? We draw on a nationally representative sample of British adolescent twins from the Environmental Risk (E‐Risk) Longitudinal Twin Study to perform a robust test of the deterrence versus labeling question. We...
Source: Criminology - December 28, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Ryan T. Motz,
J.C. Barnes,
Avshalom Caspi,
Louise Arseneault,
Francis T. Cullen,
Renate Houts,
Jasmin Wertz,
Terrie E. Moffitt Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Retraction statement: Ethnic threat and social control: Examining public support for judicial use of ethnicity in punishment
AbstractThe above article, published online on 25 May 2011 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com), has been retracted at the request of the authors and by agreement with the journal editors and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The second author, Eric A. Stewart, in the course of responding to concerns raised with the data and analysis, identified a mistake in the way the original data were merged. This, in conjunction with the discovery of other coding and transcription errors, collectively exceeded what the authors believed to be acceptable for a published paper. They therefore voluntarily requested that the paper be ret...
Source: Criminology - December 11, 2019 Category: Criminology Tags: ERRATUM Source Type: research
Retraction statement: Lynchings, racial threat, and Whites' punitive views toward Blacks
AbstractThe above article, published online on 25 March 2018 in Wiley Online Library (wileyonlinelibrary.com) has been retracted at the request of the authors and by agreement with the journal editors and Wiley Periodicals, Inc. The authors were responsive to concerns raised about the original paper and the corrigendum to this article dated 18 August 2019. However, in the course of responding to questions about the data and analysis, they determined that the errors reflected in the paper, including coding mistakes and transcription errors, exceeded what they viewed as acceptable for a published paper. They therefore volunt...
Source: Criminology - December 5, 2019 Category: Criminology Tags: ERRATUM Source Type: research
Testing hot ‐spots police patrols against no‐treatment controls: Temporal and spatial deterrence effects in the London Underground experiment
AbstractOur understanding of causality and effect size in randomized field experiments is challenged by variations in levels of baseline treatment dosage in control groups across experiments testing similar treatments. The clearest design is to compare treated cases with no ‐treatment controls in a sample that lacks any prior treatment at baseline. We applied that strategy in a randomized test of hot‐spots police patrols on the previously never‐patrolled, track‐level platforms of the London Underground (LU). In a pretest–posttest, control‐group design, we r andomly assigned 57 of the LU's 115 highest crime plat...
Source: Criminology - December 3, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Barak Ariel,
Lawrence W. Sherman,
Mark Newton Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
“Nerve” and violent encounters: An assessment of fearlessness in the face of danger
AbstractThe findings from a large body of research on the ecology of violence indicate that individuals demonstrate a willingness to engage in violence to reduce their risk for violent victimization. Scholars have suggested that a reputation for toughness and aggression acts as an informal signal that deters mistreatment. Anderson (1999), in his street code thesis, in particular, argued that adherence to the street code functions as a signal that reduces violent victimization risk. Other research findings, however, reveal that the street code leads to an increase in victimization risk; moreover, violent offenders are routi...
Source: Criminology - December 2, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Chris Melde,
Mark T. Berg,
Finn ‐Aage Esbensen Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
