Structural discrimination and social stigma among individuals incarcerated for sexual offenses: Reentry across the rural –urban continuum
AbstractThe stigma associated with a felony conviction can impede the reentry process, and emerging research findings indicate that one's community can amplify or temper the mark of a criminal record. Researchers examining criminal stigma have focused on individuals living in urban areas, overlooking the experiences of persons outside these communities. Using qualitative data collected from a sample of men and women paroled for sexual offenses in Missouri, we contrast how social and structural stigma alter the reentry experiences for participants living in communities along the rural and urban continuum. The results show t...
Source: Criminology - September 5, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Beth M. Huebner,
Kimberly R. Kras,
Breanne Pleggenkuhle Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
The commemoration of death, organizational memory, and police culture
AbstractPolice scholars document that although there is fragmentation of the so ‐called “monolithic” police culture, historically consistent features of the occupational culture of police exist. By drawing on ethnographic observations in three U.S. police departments, I describe how one consistent feature of police culture—the preoccupation with danger and potential dea th—is maintained by the commemoration of officers killed in the line of duty. Through the use of commemorative cultural artifacts, officers and departments construct an organizational memory that locally reflects and reifies the salience of danger...
Source: Criminology - August 26, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Michael Sierra ‐Arévalo Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Testing a rational choice model of “desistance:” Decomposing changing expectations and changing utilities
AbstractWe argue that a rational choice framework can be used to explain declines in offending from adolescence to young adulthood in two ways. First, subjective expectations of offending can be age graded such that perceptions of rewards decrease and perceptions of risks and costs increase. Second, the marginal (dis)utility of crime may be age graded (e.g., preferences for risks, costs, and rewards). We examine changes in offending from adolescence to young adulthood among a subset of individuals from the Pathways to Desistance Study (N = 585) and employ a nonlinear decomposition model to partition differences in offen...
Source: Criminology - August 22, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Kyle J. Thomas,
Matt Vogel Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Sexual victimization against transgender women in prison: Consent and coercion in context
AbstractIn this article, we conjoin two long ‐standing lines of inquiry in criminology—the study of prison life and the study of sexual assault—by using original qualitative and quantitative data from 315 transgender women incarcerated in 27 California men's prisons. In so doing, we advance an analysis of the factors and processes that s hape their experience of sexual victimization in prison. The results of qualitative analysis of 198 reported incidents of sexual victimization exhibit a range of types of sexual victimization experienced by transgender women in prison and reveal the centrality of relationships to the...
Source: Criminology - August 21, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Valerie Jenness,
Lori Sexton,
Jennifer Sumner Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Lynchings, racial threat, and whites ’ punitive views toward blacks
Criminology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 574-574, August 2019. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - August 17, 2019 Category: Criminology Tags: CORRIGENDUM Source Type: research
Issue Information
Criminology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 373-376, August 2019. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - August 17, 2019 Category: Criminology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Inequalities and crime
AbstractThe study of inequalities undergirds much of criminology. At times, however, we may take the impact of inequalities for granted and miss opportunities to problematize the strong link between inequalities and crime. In this address, I maintain that it is important to step back and recognize that economic, race, ethnic, gender, and other inequalities are at the core of criminology. More explicit consensus about the centrality of the link between inequalities and crime will allow for our field to speak to the major social and political issues of our time and will strengthen the field. In this address, I highlight some...
Source: Criminology - August 17, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Karen Heimer Tags: 2018 PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CRIMINOLOGY Source Type: research
Lynchings, racial threat, and whites ’ punitive views toward blacks
Criminology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 574-574, August 2019. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - August 17, 2019 Category: Criminology Tags: CORRIGENDUM Source Type: research
Issue Information
Criminology, Volume 57, Issue 3, Page 373-376, August 2019. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - August 17, 2019 Category: Criminology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
Fight or flight: Integral emotions and violent intentions
AbstractThe effect of proximate emotions on risk perceptions is of central importance to criminal decision ‐making theory, but has been understudied. We investigate the role of two integral (situational specific) emotional responses, anger and fear, in a decision‐making context regarding the choice to commit assault. We draw on dual‐process models of information processing and appraisal theory to p ropose a theoretical model in which integral emotions influence decisions and behavior. Using data from an experiment embedded in a survey to a nationwide sample of adults (N = 804), we test the interrelated roles of ang...
Source: Criminology - August 7, 2019 Category: Criminology Authors: Timothy C. Barnum,
Starr J. Solomon Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
