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Contextualizing Lives and Historical Time: Examining Changes in the Transition to Adulthood and Age-Arrest Trajectories from the 1960s to 2018 Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Bianca E. Bersani, Elaine Eggleston Doherty
Objectives: The changing nature and timing of adult role acquisition during the transition to adulthood over the past several decades may hold implications for criminal offending as adult roles are fundamental to theories of desistance. This research explores whether changes in adult role attainment during young adulthood are associated with the changes in the level and slope of the age-arrest trajectory
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What Adolescents Do or Say to Actively Influence Peers: Compliance-Gaining Tactics and Adolescent Deviance Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2024-03-04 Evelien M. Hoeben, Maartje A. Ten Cate, Frank M. Weerman, Jean Marie McGloin
Objectives: Despite abundant evidence of deviant peer influence, it remains unclear precisely how adolescents try to exert such influence. What do adolescents do or say to actively encourage or discourage deviance among their peers? The aim of the current study is to explore the different ways in which adolescents talk each other into—or out of—such behaviors. Methods: We analyzed narratives about
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Broken Windows and Community Social Control: Evidence from a Study of Street Segments Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-05-10 David Weisburd, Clair V. Uding, Joshua C. Hinkle, Kiseong Kuen
ObjectivesBroken windows theory identifies community social control as a central mechanism for controlling crime. In turn, controlling disorder is seen as the primary method that police or other go...
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School Transitions, Peer Processes, and Delinquency: A Social Network Approach to Turning Points in Adolescence Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Cassie McMillan, Brittany N. Freelin
Objectives: We examine how normative school transitions (e.g., moves from elementary to middle school) shape adolescents’ experiences with three network processes that inform delinquency: delinquen...
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The Contextual Generality of Crime: Workplace and Street Crime Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-04-20 Holly Nguyen, Rachel McNealey, Kyle J. Thomas
Objectives: We examine whether individuals engage in crime across a variety of different settings (contextual generality). Specifically, we assess whether individuals who engage in workplace crime ...
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The Political and Religious Context of Juvenile Punishment: A Multilevel Examination of Juvenile Court Dispositions in Three Southern States Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-03-29 Steven N. Zane, Jhon A. Pupo
ObjectivesWe examine the relationship between political and religious context and juvenile court dispositions, including whether case-level indicators of focal concerns are moderated by community p...
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The Within-Individual Effects of U.S. Immigration on Individual-Level Offending During Adolescence and Early Adulthood * Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-03-13 Alex O. Widdowson, Javier Ramos, Kayla Alaniz, Kristin Swartz
Objectives: Prior contextual-level studies suggest that individuals who reside in areas with higher concentrations of foreign-born residents engage in less crime and delinquency. Yet, this work has...
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How Little Does It Take to Trigger a Peer Effect? An Experiment on Crime as Conditional Rule Violation Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Christoph Engel
ObjectivesPeer effects on the decision to commit a crime have often been documented. But how little does it take to trigger the effect?MethodA fully incentivized, anonymous experiment in the tradit...
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Situational Moral Evaluations: The Role of Rationalizations & Moral Identity Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Shaina Herman, Greg Pogarsky
ObjectivesCriminological research increasingly aims to better understand criminal behavior in context. Recent advancements demonstrate how perceptions of legal sanction risk are anchored in reality...
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Crime, Consumption, and Choice: On the Interchangeability of Licit and Illicit Income Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-02-23 Holly Nguyen, Thomas A. Loughran, Volkan Topalli
ObjectivesWe examine the rational assumption of the interchangeability of legal and illegal monies. Drawing from economics, behavioral economics, and sociology we answer two main research questions...
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Vulnerability in the Neighborhood: A Study of Perceived Control Over Victimization Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-02-20 Chloe Keel, Rebecca Wickes, Murray Lee, Jonathan Jackson, Kathryn Benier
Objectives: We test which neighborhood characteristics are associated with perceived control over victimization and how the neighborhood context explains differences between women's and men's perce...
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The Collateral Cost of Juvenile Adjudications in Adult Sentencing Guideline Recommendations: The Contribution of Policy to Cumulative Disadvantage Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Miranda A. Galvin, Megan C. Kurlychek, Matthew Kleiman
Objectives: To assess whether, and to what extent, juvenile adjudications contribute to cumulative disadvantage at adult sentencing. Additionally, we parse out the relative contribution of structur...
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The Theorizing of Terrorism Within Criminology Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Daren Fisher, Erin M. Kearns
Objectives: While terrorism studies were once castigated as atheoretical and unempirical, criminology has been well suited to apply theories of crime to terrorism and to then test those theories wi...
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Radicalized Environmental Extremism and Situational Decision Making Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Timothy C. Barnum, Michael K. Logan
Objective: In this study, we investigate extremists’ appraisals of and sensitivity to perceived sanction risk during the commission of arson. We pay specific attention to the decision-making proces...
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“Dickheads” and “Cool Cops”: The Impact of Officers’ Perceived Cultural and Contextual Competence on Black Men's Appraisals of Police Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-11-25 Abigail R. Henson
Public support for police reached a record low during the summer of 2020. To ameliorate police-community relations, research has sought to identify how community attitudes towards police are built....
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Evaluating Racial and Ethnic Invariance Among the Correlates of Guilty Pleas: A Focus on the Effect of Court Legitimacy, Attorney Type, Satisfaction, and Plea-Offer Evaluation Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-11-07 Chae M. Jaynes, Jacqueline G. Lee, Heath N. Franks
ObjectivesResearch has identified racial and ethnic disparities in rates of guilty pleas relative to trial where minorities are more likely to proceed to trial, though little research has explored ...
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Juvenile Justice- and Dual System-Involved Youth: The Role of Primary Caregiver Monitoring Habits on Juvenile Recidivism Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Alyssa LaBerge, Caitlin Cavanagh, Elizabeth Cauffman
Objectives: Test whether primary caregivers’ monitoring habits protect against recidivism among juvenile justice and dual system youth and whether dual system contact moderates the relation between...
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Victim and third-party reporting of violent victimization to the police in incidents involving victims with disabilities Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-10-18 Ráchael A. Powers, Brittany E. Hayes
Objectives: Reporting an incident to police is a key event in the criminal legal process. The current study centers types of disability and how this may shape victim and third-party reporting while...
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Social Change and Race-Specific Homicide Trajectories: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Yunmei Lu, Liying Luo, Mateus R. Santos
ObjectivesSocial change and the aging process are racially bifurcated in the United States, where Black and White populations have long lived in divergent social worlds. This study examines the coh...
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A Meta-Analytic Review of Social Learning Theory and Teen Dating Violence Perpetration Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-10-09 Natasha Pusch
ObjectivesThe purpose of this study is to examine social learning theory (SLT) and teen dating violence (TDV) perpetration. This study aims to determine which predictors have the largest effect siz...
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Immigration in an Era of Mass Reentry: Does Immigrant Concentration Guard Against Serious Recidivism? Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Javier Ramos
ObjectivesDetermine whether the protective role of immigrant concentration extends to individuals with prior criminal histories such as ex-prisoners.MethodsThe present study used hierarchical logis...
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Generations of Criminalization: Resistance to Desegregation and School Punishment Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Aaron Kupchik, Felicia A. Henry
Objectives: In this paper we refocus discussions of criminalization of students on structural racial inequality. We help explain racially disproportionate school punishments, while demonstrating th...
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Trends in Prison Sentences and Racial Disparities: 20-Years of Sentencing Under Florida’s Criminal Punishment Code Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Ojmarrh Mitchell, Shi Yan, Daniela Oramas Mora
ObjectivesThe U.S. prison population has fallen 15% overall, 28% for Blacks, and 21% for Hispanics since the Great Recession began. These trends occurred despite rising defendant criminal histories...
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Racial and Ethnic Identity, Gender, and School Suspension: Heterogeneous Effects Across Hispanic and Caribbean Subgroups Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Peter S. Lehmann, Ryan C. Meldrum
Objectives: This study explores the effects of racial/ethnic identity on youths’ likelihood of receiving a suspension from school as well as whether these disparities further vary by gender. In lig...
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Disproportionately Punished, Yet Still Neglected: Variation in Official Police Responses to American Indian/Alaska Native Offending and Victimization Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Brendan Lantz, Cole Ward
ObjectivesWhile a great deal of research has considered racial disparities in the criminal justice system, empirical research on the American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) population is still in its ...
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Who Believes that the Police Use Excessive Force? Centering Racism in Research on Perceptions of the Police Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Kevin Drakulich, Jesenia Robles, Eric Rodriguez-Whitney, Cassidy Pereira
ObjectivesPolice use of excessive—even fatal—force is a significant social issue, one at the symbolic heart of the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement. However, a substantial number of America...
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Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Police and Prosecutorial Drug Charging: Analyzing Organizational Overlap in Charging Patterns at Arrest, Filing, and Conviction Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Oshea Johnson, Marisa Omori, Nick Petersen
Objective: Explore racial-ethnic disparities in drug charging trajectories from arrest to conviction. Methods: We analyze racial-ethnic disparities in charging severity across arrest, filing, and c...
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The Evolution of Anti-Blackness in the American South: How Slavery and Segregation Perpetuates the Victimization of Black People Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-09-07 Caroline M. Bailey
Objectives: Drawing on the “legacy effect” framework and the intergroup contact hypothesis, this study examines whether 1) slavery is associated with anti-Black hate crimes, 2) racial segregation i...
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Does Procedural Justice Reduce the Harmful Effects of Perceived Ineffectiveness on Police Legitimacy? Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-09-01 Yongjae Nam, Scott E. Wolfe, Justin Nix
Objectives: Judgments about police procedural fairness consistently have a stronger influence on how the public ascribes legitimacy to the police than evaluations of police effectiveness. What rema...
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Are the Police Primarily Responsible for Influencing Place-Level Perceptions of Procedural Justice and Effectiveness? A Longitudinal Study of Street Segments Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-08-28 David Weisburd, Tal Jonathan-Zamir, Clair White, David B. Wilson, Kiseong Kuen
Objectives While there has been significant study of the relationship between police legitimacy and its key antecedents - procedural justice (PJ) and police effectiveness (PE) at the individual level, little attention has been paid to what impacts general evaluations of PJ and PE. Our paper focuses on these perceptions at places. Methods Our analyzes utilize survey data collected on 447 street segments
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Receiving Visits and the Relative Timing of Inmates’ Infractions: Investigations into how Inmates’ Behavior Change Before and After Visits in Dutch Prisons Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-08-19 Maria Berghuis, Miranda Sentse, Hanneke Palmen, Paul Nieuwbeerta
Objectives This study tests the relative timing of inmate infractions in the weeks before and after a visit. Method Our sample is a cohort of 823 male inmates who participated in the Dutch Prison Visitation Study (DPVS) (2017) and had visitation and misconduct data. Using two-level random effects logistic regression models, we examined week-to-week associations between infractions and prison visits
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Coercive Control or Self-Defense? Examining Firearm use in Male- and Female-Perpetrated Intimate Partner Homicide Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-07-25 Emma E. Fridel, Gregory M. Zimmerman
Objectives: Bridge the gap between feminist scholarship and sociological literature on gun utility by examining the correlates of gun usage in heterosexual intimate partner homicide by offender gender. Methods: Using data on 7,588 incidents from the National Violent Death Reporting System (NVDRS) from 2003 to 2018, logistic regression models examined the odds of using a firearm during intimate partner
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Whence the Action? the Persistence and Aggravation of Violent Crime at Addresses, Streets, and Neighborhoods Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-07-21 Dan O'Brien, Alex Ciomek
Objectives Researchers have long studied the persistence of violence and aggravation from disorder to violence in communities. Recently this work has begun to consider how these phenomena might operate simultaneously at multiple geographic scales. We examine the role of neighborhoods, streets, and addresses in these phenomena, presenting and assessing a five-part typology for cross-scale interactions
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The Role of Normative Age-Graded Transitions and Human Agency in Patterns and Variations of Financial Exploitation of Older Adults Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-06-15 Julie Brancale, Thomas G. Blomberg
Objectives: Drawing from normative age-graded transitions and human agency, this study provides a theoretical and empirical exploration of the patterns and variations of financial exploitation of older adults. Methods: The study employs qualitative methods with data collected from focus groups and interviews with residents of a large retirement community. Results: Normative age-graded transitions—such
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Crime Reporting in Chicago: A Comparison of Police and Victim Survey Data, 1999–2018 Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Maribeth L. Rezey, Janet L. Lauritsen
Objectives A critical unknown in any jurisdiction is the scope of crime that is not brought to the attention of police. This study provides a unique comparison of Chicago crime rates using both police and victimization survey data. Levels of crime reporting and the reasons victims provide for or against reporting crime to the police are examined. Patterns are compared to those found for other large
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Immigration and School Threat?: Exploring the Significance of the Border Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-05-11 Janice Iwama, Anthony A. Peguero, Miner P. “Trey” Marchbanks, III, John M. Eason, Jamilia Blake, Jienian Zhang
Objectives: The current study examines the relationship between immigration, school punishment, and place in schools near the U.S.-Mexico border using a racial threat framework. Given the consequences of the immigration-crime link and the growing perception of the U.S.-Mexico border as a crime-ridden place, this study explores how immigration within certain places may differentially impact outcomes
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From School Halls to Shopping Malls: Multilevel Predictors of Police Contact In and Out of School Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-05-09 Stephanie A. Wiley, Lee Ann Slocum, Finn-Aage Esbensen
Objectives: Individual- and school-level factors associated with youth being stopped, searched, or arrested in school are identified. Correlates of community-based contact are also examined. Methods: Longitudinal student surveys and corresponding school-level data come from 21 middle and high schools in 6 districts in St. Louis County, Missouri. Multilevel multinomial logistic regression was used to
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Perceptions of White-Collar Crime Seriousness: Unpacking and Translating Attitudes into Policy Preferences Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-05-06 Sally S. Simpson, Miranda A. Galvin, Thomas A. Loughran, Mark A. Cohen
Objectives Test the role of individual and crime characteristics on public opinions of white-collar crime seriousness and support for crime reduction policy; consider the relationship between perceptions of crime seriousness and support for public policies to reduce white-collar crime. Methods Data from a nationally-representative survey. Respondents (n = 2,050) rated ten white-collar crimes, relative
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Who Leaves and Who Enters? Flow Measures of Neighborhood Change and Consequences for Neighborhood Crime Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-03-24 John R. Hipp, Alyssa W. Chamberlain
Objectives Longitudinal studies of the relationship between neighborhood change and changes in crime typically focus exclusively on the net level of change in key socio-demographic characteristics. Methods We instead propose a demographic accounting strategy that captures the composition of neighborhood change: our measures capture which types of people are more likely to leave, stay, or enter the
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Examining the Impact of Mental Health, Substance Use, and Co-Occurring Disorders on Juvenile Court Outcomes Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-03-11 D’Andre Walker, Arynn A. Infante, Deja Knight
Objectives: This study isolates the effects of mental health, substance use, and co-occurring disorders on three distinct dispositional outcomes: incarceration (i.e., jail/detention), non-incarcerative residential placement (i.e., treatment facility), and community sanctions (i.e., fines/restitution or probation). Methods: Using a sample of juvenile offenders from the Pathways to Desistance study (N = 617)
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An Examination of Noncompleted Sexual Offences, Offenders’ Perceptions of Risks and Difficulties and Related Situational Factors Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-03-07 Benoit Leclerc, Danielle Reynald, Richard Wortley, Alana Cook, Jesse Cale
Objectives: The current study aims to generate insights from sexual offenders on noncompleted sexual offences, that is, on offences that were stopped or discouraged. Methods: Using a sample of sexual offenders who initiated a sexual offence but were stopped or discouraged in action, which we refer to as noncompleted offences, we first examine which and how situational factors and internal states may
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Childhood Head Injury as an Acquired Neuropsychological Risk Factor for Adolescent Delinquency Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-02-23 Jessica Mongilio
Objectives This study aims to parse out the effects of childhood head injury (HI) as an acquired neuropsychological deficit that impacts adolescent delinquent behavior, while accounting for other early-life risk factors and potential temporal ordering. Methods Nationally representative prospective data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study (MCS; N = 13,287) and a series of logistic and binomial regressions
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Unpacking the Criminogenic Aspects of Stress Over the Life Course: The Joint Effects of Proximal Strain and Childhood Abuse on Violence and Substance Use in a High-Risk Sample of Women Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-02-15 Lee Ann Slocum, Jennifer Medel, Elaine Eggleston Doherty, Sally S. Simpson
Purpose Drawing on concepts from strain, feminist, and life-course perspectives, we investigate the proximal effects of strain on violence and serious drug use along with the distal “carryover” effects of childhood abuse among women. Methods Using 36 months of retrospective data collected from 778 incarcerated women, we estimate monthly within-person effects of four types of strain experienced in adulthood
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Recidivism of Low-Risk People That Receive Residential Community-Based Correctional Programs: The Role of Risk Contamination Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-02-07 Michael Ostermann
Objectives Placing low-risk individuals into residential community-based correctional programs often results in minimal or iatrogenic impacts upon recidivism. Contamination through exposure to higher-risk program participants is a mechanism that has been used to explain these effects. This study empirically explores this phenomenon. Methods A series of survival models examine data from low-risk paroled
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Firearm Dealers and Local Gun Violence: A Street Network Analysis of Shootings and Concentrated Disadvantage in Atlanta Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-02-04 Daniel C. Semenza, Elizabeth Griffiths, Jie Xu, Richard Stansfield
Objectives Examine the spatial relationship between firearm dealers and shootings in Atlanta. Methods We combine data from the Atlanta Police Department (APD), the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF), and the American Community Survey (ACS) to conduct a street network analysis from 2016 through 2018. We employ the Network Cross K Function to assess whether firearm dealers attract
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Cumulative Racial and Ethnic Disparities Along the School-to-Prison Pipeline Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-01-10 Kelly Welch, Peter S. Lehmann, Cecilia Chouhy, Ted Chiricos
Objectives Using the cumulative disadvantage theoretical framework, the current study explores whether school suspension and expulsion provide an indirect path through which race and ethnicity affect the likelihood of experiencing arrest, any incarceration, and long-term incarceration in adulthood. Methods To address these issues, we use data from Waves I, II, and IV of the Add Health survey (N = 14
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Gender, Life Domains, and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration: A Partial Test of Agnew’s General Theory of Crime and Delinquency Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Fawn T. Ngo, Egbert Zavala, Alex R. Piquero
Objectives We assess the proposed mechanisms outlined in Agnew’s General Theory of Crime and Delinquency about gender differences in crime and deviance (gender differences are due to differences between males and females in their standing on the life domains or differences in the effect of the life domains on the phenomenon among males and females) in accounting for sex differences in intimate partner
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Situational Peer Dynamics and Crime Decisions Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Timothy C. Barnum, Greg Pogarsky
Objectives To investigate how peer dynamics, specifically interpersonal conversations between a potential offender and a peer, contemporaneous with a crime opportunity, influence perceptions of sanction certainty and social costs. Methods Data are analyzed from randomized experiments and hypothetical vignettes embedded within a nationwide, online survey (n = 1,275). Vignettes were presented for three
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Not (Entirely) Guilty: The Role of Co-offenders in Diffusing Responsibility for Crime Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-11-16 Zachary R. Rowan, Emily Kan, Paul J. Frick, Elizabeth Cauffman
Objectives: Test the diffusion of responsibility hypothesis by examining associations between the presence, number, and role of co-offenders and adolescents’ perceived responsibility for criminal behavior. Methods: The study uses data from the Crossroads Study, a longitudinal study of 1,216 male adolescents who were arrested for the first time. A series of generalized ordered logistic regressions assess
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Country-level firearm availability and terrorism: A new approach to examining the gun-crime relationship Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-11-15 Jennifer Varriale Carson, Rick Dierenfeldt, Daren Fisher
Objectives: This study examines the association between a country's gun availability and firearm-related terrorism. Methods: Employing data from 140 countries, we assess the possible relationship between a country's rate of suicide by firearm and their count of terrorist attacks involving a firearm through a series of structural equation models. Results: Collectively, we find that there is a positive
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Arrested Friendships? Justice Involvement and Interpersonal Exclusion among Rural Youth Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-11-05 Wade C. Jacobsen, Daniel T. Ragan, Mei Yang, Emily L. Nadel, Mark E. Feinberg
Objectives: We examine the impacts of adolescent arrest on friendship networks. In particular, we extend labeling theory by testing hypotheses for three potential mechanisms of interpersonal exclusion related to the stigma of arrest: rejection, withdrawal, and homophily. Method: We use longitudinal data on 48 peer networks from PROSPER, a study of rural youth followed through middle and high school
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Development and Application of Individual and National Opportunity to the Experience of Intimate Partner Violence among Married Women in the Global South Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Brittany E. Hayes
Objectives: Building on the ecological model, multicontextual opportunity theory, and southern criminology, the study developed individual- and country-level indicators of opportunity to understand the experience of intimate partner violence (IPV) among married women in the Global South. Opportunity-related indicators considered the impact of globalization and variability across nations categorized
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Shifting Peaks and Cumulative Consequences: Disqualifying Convictions in High-security Jobs Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-09-22 Megan Denver, Brandon Behlendorf
Objectives: Disqualifying conviction lists (DCLs) bar applicants with certain convictions within specified timeframes from employment. Using proposed federal legislative changes in the aviation sector as a case study, we examine whether convictions under the existing policy are associated with subsequent arrest. Then we consider the implications of proposed expansions—arrests instead of convictions
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The Racial Divide at Micro Places: A Pre/Post Analysis of the Effects of the Newark Consent Decree on Field Inquiries (2015–2017) Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-08-03 Vijay F. Chillar
Objectives: An initial investigation by the Department of Justice (DOJ) found that the Newark Police Department (NPD) had engaged in a “pattern or practice” of constitutional violations with regard to stop and arrest practices, prompting the city to enter a consent decree. Methods: This study draws on official event-level data on FIs recorded by NPD officers (N = 50,322) and uses random effects panel
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Citizenship and Sentencing: Assessing Intersectionality in National Origin and Legal Migration Status on Federal Sentencing Outcomes Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Doyun Koo, Ben Feldmeyer, Bryan Holmes
Objectives: This study seeks to understand how national origin and legal migration status of noncitizen defendants in federal criminal courts shape incarceration and sentence length decisions. Method: The authors use annual United States Sentencing Commission (USSC) Monitoring of Federal Criminal Sentences (MFCS) datasets (2011–2016) to examine the impact of defendant’s (1) national origin and (2)
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The Influence of Police Treatment and Decision-making on Perceptions of Procedural Justice: A Field Study Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-07-12 Bo L. Terpstra, Peter W. van Wijck
Objectives: This study examines whether police behavior that signals higher quality of treatment or decision-making leads to higher perceived procedural justice. Methods: Analyses are based on data collected during police traffic controls of moped drivers in two Dutch cities over a period of six months. Police behavior was measured through systematic social observation (SSO), and data on perceived
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The Age-Graded Consequences of Justice System Involvement for Mental Health Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-06-30 Kathleen Powell
Objectives: Drawing on the life course and social stress perspectives, this paper examines age variation in the mental health consequences of justice system involvement by assessing arrest, conviction, or incarceration as possible age-graded stressors that amplify harm at younger ages of involvement. Methods: Individual fixed effect regression models utilizing National Longitudinal Survey of Youth
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When Crime Moves Where Does It Go? Analyzing the Spatial Correlates of Robbery Incidents Displaced by a Place-based Policing Intervention Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-05-07 David Hatten, Eric L. Piza
Objective: Examine the place-based correlates of robbery activity displaced by a foot-patrol intervention in Newark, NJ. We use constructs from Crime Pattern and Social Disorganization theories to test hypotheses concerned with associations between the structure of the environment and the displacement of crime. Method: Robbery incidents were spatially joined to street segments to study micro-level
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Social Disorganization and Strain: Macro and Micro Implications for Youth Violence Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-04-15 Maria João Lobo Antunes, Michelle Manasse
Objectives: Explanations of community violence traditionally reflect a social disorganization perspective, suggesting that neighborhood characteristics affect crime via the intervening mechanism of informal social control. Drawing on Agnew’s Macro Strain Theory [MST], we argue that neighborhood characteristics 1) also affect macro-level crime for reasons related to aggregated strain and 2) condition
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The Impact of Ambiguity-induced Error in Offender Decision-making: Evidence from the Field Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency (IF 3.364) Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Greg Midgette, Thomas A. Loughran, Sarah Tahamont
Objectives: To invoke behavioral economics theories of ambiguity in the context of offender decision-making, and to test the impact of ambiguity in punishment certainty on offender decisions. Methods: We leverage a quasi-experimental condition among a sample of drunk driving arrestees that are tested for alcohol use and subject to mandatory brief incarceration for a violation. The treatment condition