Sanction risk perceptions, coherence, and deterrence*
AbstractResearch from environmental criminology, policing, and related literatures consistently finds that objective conditions related to risk of apprehension affect crime. The mechanism underlying this relationship is not explicitly tested; instead, perceptual deterrence is assumed. In this analysis we explicitly investigate that mechanism. This test is not straightforward, however, as some research shows that risk perceptions are susceptible to various cognitive biases and framing effects. Thus, we advance a framework of sanction risk perception that combines individual and contextual determinants. Specifically, we inve...
Source: Criminology - January 9, 2021 Category: Criminology Authors: Timothy C. Barnum,
Daniel S. Nagin,
Greg Pogarsky Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Romantic partners and young adult offending: Considering the role of partner's socioeconomic characteristics
In this study, we examined whether and to what extent the effects on offending of marriage and different types of cohabitating partnerships depend on the romantic partner's socioeconomic status (SES). Such research addresses a key gap in knowledge regarding potential heterogeneity of effects on behavior of romantic partnerships. Drawing on the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, we examined the within ‐individual effects of three romantic partner's socioeconomic characteristics–education, employment, and income–on offending from ages 18 to 34. Results revealed that marriage was related to reductions in arrest...
Source: Criminology - January 9, 2021 Category: Criminology Authors: Alex O. Widdowson,
Carter Hay,
Sonja E. Siennick Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Sanction risk perceptions, coherence, and deterrence*
AbstractResearch from environmental criminology, policing, and related literatures consistently finds that objective conditions related to risk of apprehension affect crime. The mechanism underlying this relationship is not explicitly tested; instead, perceptual deterrence is assumed. In this analysis we explicitly investigate that mechanism. This test is not straightforward, however, as some research shows that risk perceptions are susceptible to various cognitive biases and framing effects. Thus, we advance a framework of sanction risk perception that combines individual and contextual determinants. Specifically, we inve...
Source: Criminology - January 9, 2021 Category: Criminology Authors: Timothy C. Barnum,
Daniel S. Nagin,
Greg Pogarsky Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Editors ’ Note
Criminology, EarlyView. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - January 5, 2021 Category: Criminology Authors: David McDowall,
Jody Miller,
Charis Kubrin,
Carter Hay Tags: EDITORS' NOTE Source Type: research
The contemporary transformation of american youth: An analysis of change in the prevalence of delinquency, 1991 –2015
AbstractYouth involvement in crime has declined substantially over the past few decades, yet the reasons for this trend remain unclear. We advance the literature by examining the role of several potentially important shifts in individual attitudes and behaviors that may help to account for the observed temporal variation in youth delinquency. Our multilevel analysis of repeated cross ‐sectional data from eighth and tenth grade students in the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study indicates that changes in youth offending prevalence were not associated with changes in youth attachment and commitment to school, community invol...
Source: Criminology - December 16, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Eric P. Baumer,
Kelsey Cundiff,
Liying Luo Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Picking battles: Correctional officers, rules, and discretion in prison
AbstractTo outsiders, prisons vacillate between visions of regimented order and anarchic disorder. The place of rules in prison sits at the fulcrum between these two visions of regulation. Based on 131 qualitative interviews with correctional officers across four different prisons in western Canada, we examine how correctional officers understand and exercise discretion in prison. Our findings highlight how an officer's habitus shapes individual instances of discretionary decision‐making. We show how officers modify how they exercise discretion in light of their views on how incarcerated people, fello w officers, and s...
Source: Criminology - November 9, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Kevin D. Haggerty,
Sandra M. Bucerius Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Confinement as a two ‐stage turning point: Do changes in identity or social structure predict subsequent changes in criminal activity?*
AbstractScholars frequently characterize incarceration as a possible turning point in criminal activity. This implies a two ‐stage process: 1) change in life‐course mechanisms around confinement and reentry result in 2) subsequent change in criminal activity relative to preconfinement. Following this model, we examine change in criminal activity, criminal identity, and social/structural challenges using data from the Prison Project, a cohort of adult males with short‐term confinement in the Netherlands in 2010–2011. Results of a novel test for within‐individual change in arrests from preconfinement to post‐reen...
Source: Criminology - November 9, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Audrey Hickert,
Shawn Bushway,
Paul Nieuwbeerta,
Anja J.E. Dirkzwager Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Picking battles: Correctional officers, rules, and discretion in prison
AbstractTo outsiders, prisons vacillate between visions of regimented order and anarchic disorder. The place of rules in prison sits at the fulcrum between these two visions of regulation. Based on 131 qualitative interviews with correctional officers across four different prisons in western Canada, we examine how correctional officers understand and exercise discretion in prison. Our findings highlight how an officer's habitus shapes individual instances of discretionary decision‐making. We show how officers modify how they exercise discretion in light of their views on how incarcerated people, fello w officers, and s...
Source: Criminology - November 9, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Kevin D. Haggerty,
Sandra M. Bucerius Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Confinement as a two ‐stage turning point: Do changes in identity or social structure predict subsequent changes in criminal activity?*
AbstractScholars frequently characterize incarceration as a possible turning point in criminal activity. This implies a two ‐stage process: 1) change in life‐course mechanisms around confinement and reentry result in 2) subsequent change in criminal activity relative to preconfinement. Following this model, we examine change in criminal activity, criminal identity, and social/structural challenges using data from the Prison Project, a cohort of adult males with short‐term confinement in the Netherlands in 2010–2011. Results of a novel test for within‐individual change in arrests from preconfinement to post‐reen...
Source: Criminology - November 9, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Audrey Hickert,
Shawn Bushway,
Paul Nieuwbeerta,
Anja J.E. Dirkzwager Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Picking battles: Correctional officers, rules, and discretion in prison
AbstractTo outsiders, prisons vacillate between visions of regimented order and anarchic disorder. The place of rules in prison sits at the fulcrum between these two visions of regulation. Based on 131 qualitative interviews with correctional officers across four different prisons in western Canada, we examine how correctional officers understand and exercise discretion in prison. Our findings highlight how an officer's habitus shapes individual instances of discretionary decision‐making. We show how officers modify how they exercise discretion in light of their views on how incarcerated people, fello w officers, and s...
Source: Criminology - November 9, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Kevin D. Haggerty,
Sandra M. Bucerius Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Confinement as a two ‐stage turning point: Do changes in identity or social structure predict subsequent changes in criminal activity?*
AbstractScholars frequently characterize incarceration as a possible turning point in criminal activity. This implies a two ‐stage process: 1) change in life‐course mechanisms around confinement and reentry result in 2) subsequent change in criminal activity relative to preconfinement. Following this model, we examine change in criminal activity, criminal identity, and social/structural challenges using data from the Prison Project, a cohort of adult males with short‐term confinement in the Netherlands in 2010–2011. Results of a novel test for within‐individual change in arrests from preconfinement to post‐reen...
Source: Criminology - November 9, 2020 Category: Criminology Authors: Audrey Hickert,
Shawn Bushway,
Paul Nieuwbeerta,
Anja J.E. Dirkzwager Tags: ARTICLE Source Type: research
Issue Information
Criminology, Volume 58, Issue 4, Page 595-598, November 2020. (Source: Criminology)
Source: Criminology - November 4, 2020 Category: Criminology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research
