Issue Information
Criminology, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 575-578, November 2019. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - November 12, 2019 Category: Criminology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Taking sides: Gender and third ‐party partisanship in disputes
AbstractWe examine the role of a norm protecting women in understanding third ‐party partisanship in verbal and violent disputes. Our analyses are based on reports provided by male inmates and men they know who have never been arrested. The results show that third parties are more likely to support female adversaries than male adversaries. The gender effect is stronger when we control for the relational distance between adversaries, which indicates that a privacy norm might inhibit this normative protection. The gender effect is somewhat weaker when we control for the relative physical size of the adversaries, which indi...
Source: Criminology - November 12, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Ethan M. Rogers,
Richard B. Felson,
Mark T. Berg,
Andrew Krajewski Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Issue Information
Criminology, Volume 57, Issue 4, Page 575-578, November 2019. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - November 12, 2019 Category: Criminology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Together despite the odds: Explaining racial and ethnic heterogeneity in union dissolution after incarceration
AbstractThe U.S. incarceration rate rose dramatically over the past 45 years, increasing the number of marriages and cohabiting unions disrupted by a jail or prison stay. But as some have pointed out, not all unions dissolve as a result of incarceration, and there seems to be racial –ethnic variation in this tendency, with Blacks displaying higher rates of dissolution than Whites and Hispanics. Yet it is unclear what explains racial–ethnic differences in union dissolution among the incarcerated. Drawing on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97), we examine why racial–ethnic differences in union disso...
Source: Criminology - November 10, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Alex O. Widdowson,
Wade C. Jacobsen,
Sonja E. Siennick,
Patricia Y. Warren Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Employer aversion to criminal records: An experimental study of mechanisms
AbstractThe mark of a criminal record is clearly harmful for employment. The reasons for employer aversion, however, are not well established even though legal, policy, and scholarly responses rely on particular explanations. We propose that explanations for aversion often fit under a repetition risk framework in which employers use records as neutral sources of information about prior illegal activity and make decisions to minimize risk of similar future conduct. A second explanation is stigma, in which the records themselves, independent of conduct, trigger stereotypes, status loss, and discrimination. Using an experimen...
Source: Criminology - November 3, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Naomi F. Sugie,
Noah D. Zatz,
Dallas Augustine Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Evaluating the shared and unique predictors of legal cynicism and police legitimacy from adolescence into early adulthood
AbstractIn different theoretical traditions, negative social conditions, attachments, and interactions shape the way individuals view the law and its agents. Although most researchers acknowledge the conceptual distinction between different legal attitudes such as legal cynicism and police legitimacy, it remains unclear to what extent these attitudes stem from the same social sources. In the current study, therefore, we evaluate the social and individual factors that influence trajectories of legal cynicism and police legitimacy using a diverse community sample of youths in Zurich, Switzerland. Latent growth curve models w...
Source: Criminology - October 27, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Amy Nivette,
Manuel Eisner,
Denis Ribeaud Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Criminal records and college admissions: A modified experimental audit
AbstractIn this article, we consider the effect of criminal records on college admissions. Nearly 72 percent of colleges require criminal history information during their application processes, which indicates that an applicant's criminal history could be a significant impediment to achieving the benefits associated with higher education. We conducted a modified experimental audit to learn whether and to what extent criminal records affect admissions decisions. Matched same ‐race pairs of tester applications were sent to a national sample of nonelite 4‐year colleges, with both testers applying as either Black or White....
Source: Criminology - October 22, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Robert Stewart,
Christopher Uggen Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
School punishment and interpersonal exclusion: Rejection, withdrawal, and separation from friends
AbstractSchool suspension is a common form of punishment in the United States that is disproportionately concentrated among racial minority and disadvantaged youth. In labeling theories, the implication is that such stigmatized sanctions may lead to interpersonal exclusion from normative others and to greater involvement with antisocial peers. I test this implication in the context of rural schools by 1) examining the association between suspension and discontinuity in same ‐grade friendship ties, focusing on three mechanisms implied in labeling theories: rejection, withdrawal, and physical separation; 2) testing the ass...
Source: Criminology - September 12, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Wade C. Jacobsen Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
