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Characteristics of Crime Convenience: The Case of Corporate Offenders Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Petter Gottschalk, Christopher Hamerton
This article presents a review of the research addressing the seriousness of corporate crime and the convenience for corporate offenders. Insights from this review are important as detection and pr...
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Prevalence of Legal, Prescription, and Illegal Drugs Aiming at Cognitive Enhancement across Sociodemographic Groups in Germany Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Sebastian Sattler, Floris van Veen, Fabian Hasselhorn, Lobna El Tabei, Uwe Fuhr, Guido Mehlkop
There has been speculation about a growing demand for substances used without medical need for cognitive enhancement (CE). Thus, the prevalence rates and the identification of sociodemographic grou...
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The Role of Situational Ambiguity: An Extension of General Strain Theory Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-16 Joshua H. Williams, Nikki Hurless, Ana Daniels
General Strain Theory (GST) posits that strains are likely to be most criminogenic when high in magnitude, viewed as unfair, associated with low social control, and promote pressure or incentive to...
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Exploring the Relationship Between Stress and Excessive Gaming: The Role of Game Efficacy Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-15 Yeungjeom Lee, Andrew Krajewski, Jihoon Kim, Kerrie Ann Hull
Video game overuse, especially among youths, has become a global social concern with diverse adverse consequences. Using data on a sample of Korean adolescents from the Game User Panel, this study ...
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Six Decades of Media Routinizing Exaggerations Concerns and Fears Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Nachman Ben-Yehuda
Comparing police crime-rates to newspaper reports for a period of over six decades this reasearch first examined crime reporting in the media. Second, it confirmed what we know: location of crime n...
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Unpacking the Construction of Online Identities of Hybristophilia Communities on TikTok Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Thomas James Vaughan Williams, Harriet Emily Slater, Camilo Tamayo Gomez
This study delves into the expressions of Hybristophilia, an intriguing phenomenon characterized by a sexual attraction to criminal offenders. While existing literature has primarily focused on man...
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Rape and Sexual Assault: The Criminalised Disabled Sex Offender Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Chrissie Rogers
The collective belief that a sex offender is dangerous, is powerful in considering sexual norms and incarceration. In this article, I tell stories of sex crimes via life-story interviews with neuro...
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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Truancy in High School: An Analysis of Florida Adolescents Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-07 Cashen M. Boccio, Stephanie M. Cardwell, Dylan B. Jackson
Previous research links exposure to adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) with a host of negative outcomes, including negative school outcomes. For instance, some studies link exposure to ACEs with ...
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“All These Crazies”: Right-Wing Anti-Authoritarian Politics and the Targeting of Public Police Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Laura Huey, Lorna Ferguson
Drawing on a dataset comprised of 67 interviews with police personnel across Canada, as well as documents, videos and social media content, this paper examines five different types of “harms” perpe...
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When Economic Sanctions Cause White-Collar and Corporate Crime: The Case of Hidden Russian Ownership Revealed by a Norwegian Insurance Firm Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Petter Gottschalk
Sanctions have criminalizing consequences. This paper addresses the issue of Russian businesses attempting to circumvent and evade sanctions by white-collar and corporate crime. The case presented ...
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Liminal Athletes: Abusive Hazing and Masculinities in Homosocial Team sports1 Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Safter Elmas, F. Hülya Aşçı, İlknur Hacısoftaoğlu
In this study, we aimed to reveal the dimensions and qualities of violence and abuse in sports through hazing in Turkish sample. We also consider hazing, which involves inhuman and deviant behavior...
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From Outsider to Insider: A Look at the Subculture of Microdosing Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Blake Beaton, Jurg Gerber
The practice of microdosing classic psychedelic drugs (e.g. LSD [lysergic acid diethylamide] and psilocybin) has not only become more commonplace, but has also been shown to have potential in treat...
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COVID-19 Parental Job Disruptions and Adolescent Suicide Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-31 Chad N. Loes
A persistent issue for public health officials, suicide attempts among adolescents have increased in many parts of the United States since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Despite some work exam...
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An Examination of (Proximal Determinants of) Online Aggression Perpetration Among Adults Aged 19 to 79 Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Sara Pabian, Heidi Vandebosch
Online aggression is not only prevalent among adolescents, but also among adults of all ages. Most of the previous studies among adults have focused on limited age cohorts, for instance, university...
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Stigmatization Through Positioning and Interpretative Repertoires: The Case of Honor Crimes in the Arab World Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Sufyan Abuarrah
In the context of “honor” crimes in the Arab world, victims are subjected to stigmatization for deviating from societal norms by perpetrators seeking to assuage their culpability. Understudied is s...
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Correction Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-21
Published in Deviant Behavior (Ahead of Print, 2024)
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A Comparison of Traditional Delinquency and Cyber-Delinquency: General Strain Theory and Community Protective Factors Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-13 E. Lee, J. A. Park, S. J. Park, Young Il Cho
This study aims to analyze the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on forms of delinquency among South Korean adolescents. We investigate the risks and protective factors associated with traditional delinqu...
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Mediating the Peer Delinquency–Future Offending Relationship with Legal Cynicism and Moral Neutralization Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Glenn D. Walters
This study tested the “perception before belief” hypothesis which holds that perception generally precedes belief in promoting future delinquency. It was reasoned that legal cynicism, a facet of pr...
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The Moral Maze of Cyberbullying: Navigating the Roles of Victims, Bystanders, and Perpetrators in the Cycle of Harm Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Ioan-Alex Merlici, Alexandra Maftei
The available literature suggests that cyberbullying victims might be prone to become cyber-perpetrators themselves and that cyber-passive bystanders might be influenced by their cyberbullying expe...
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Does time work its magic? The relationship between time in detention and risk of violence and aggression Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Joana Andrade, Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves, Andreia de Castro Rodrigues
The present study intends to analyze if there are differences in scores of aggressiveness and violence between three groups of pre-trial detainees with different times of detention. Our analysis re...
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Measuring the Dark Core of Personality in Portugal: A Psychometric Examination of D Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Pedro Pechorro, Rita Rodrigues, Bruno Bonfá-Araujo, Matt DeLisi, Mário R. Simões
The dark core of personality is a recently developed construct that encompasses the malevolent, antagonistic, and aversive side of human nature. The aim of the present study is to examine the psych...
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Testing Key Concepts of Three Delinquency Theories in a Multi-National Sample of Adolescents Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Ineke Haen Marshall, Stuti S. Kokkalera, Chris E. Marshall
We test the generalizability of three mainstream delinquency theories across different cultural contexts by differentiating their core theoretical elements in general strain theory (economic stress...
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Silent Struggles: Family Dynamics and Drug Abuse Reporting Under Harsh Laws and Stigmatizing Perceptions Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-03-01 Ngo Hoang Thao Trang, Truong Dang Thuy
Under Vietnam’s stringent drug laws and prevailing negative societal attitudes toward drug users, families face challenges in reporting members dealing with drug abuse. Such underreporting poses cr...
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Marketness and Governance: A Typology of Illicit Online Markets Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Rasmus Munksgaard
The preceding decade has seen an explosive growth in illicit online commerce, and scholars are increasingly occupied with the study of illicit products, their buyers and sellers, and the platforms ...
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How Peer Victimization in Childhood Affects Social Networking Addiction in Adulthood: An Examination of the Mediating Roles of Social Anxiety and Perceived Loneliness Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Kunjie Cui, Paul S. F. Yip
Research to date has rarely addressed the association between peer victimization in childhood and social networking addiction in adulthood, much less the internal mechanism underlying that associat...
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Attitudes Toward Violence and Cyberstalking: Gender’s Moderating Role Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Isabella Leandra Silva Santos, Débora Cristina Nascimento Lima, Carlos Eduardo Pimentel, Tailson Evangelista Mariano
The present study aimed to investigate the moderating role of gender in the relationship between attitudes toward violence and cyberstalking. A total of 393 Brazilian’s volunteers composed the samp...
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Large Predator Poaching as Situational Action Fueled by Legal Hunts Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Martine S.B. Lie
Poaching of large predators is a big threat to their survival in Norway. These illegal killings take many forms, some meticulously planned, others spontaneous, such as in situations mistakenly expe...
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Foregrounding Meaning and Motive in the Domestic Abuse Perpetration of and Response to Neurodivergent Men Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-18 Nicole Renehan
Typological approaches have thus far neglected the perpetration, profiles, and response to neurodivergent men who are autistic, have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and those experiencing ...
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Examining Burglary Scripts in Community-Based Samples Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Matthew T King-Parker, Ross M Bartels, Tochukwu Onwuegbusi, Patrick Dickinson
Burglary is a high-volume and frequently repeated offense. However, little is known about the cognitive scripts that may facilitate first-time burglaries. Thus, this paper reports three studies tha...
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I Might Be a Goody Two-Shoes, but at Least I Have a Job! An Examination of the Correlates of Following Institutional Rules Among Texas Prison Guards Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Robert M. Worley, Eric G. Lambert, Vidisha Barua Worley
For prisons and jails to run effectively and efficiently, correctional officers need to follow institutional policies and rules. Failure to follow the rules could lead to deviant acts of officer-on...
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Dating Applications: A Honeypot for Sextortion Victims Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-14 Harmony Tavakoli, Calli Tzani, Maria Ioannou, Thomas James Vaughan Williams, Michelle Drouin, Rachel Fletcher
Perpetrators often have easy access to victims via widely used social media networks, such as Snapchat, Instagram, and Facebook. Nowadays, dating applications have provided one more platform where ...
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Examining the Moderating Effects of Neuroticism and Gender in the Mediation of Deviant Peer Affiliation to Cyberbullying Through Moral Disengagement Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Huiling Zhou, Caiyu Wang, Na Xiao, Huaibin Jiang, Jiamei Lu
Deviant peer affiliation (DPA) and moral disengagement (MD) play a vital role in adolescents’ cyberbullying perpetration (CP). However, moderating mechanisms underlying this association remain larg...
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Cracking the Code? Schools, Neighborhoods, Peers, Individual Propensity, and the Conditioning Effect of Race and Gender on Code of the Street Adherence Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Jacob H. Erickson, Alexandra Slemaker, Kyle A. Burgason
There is a growing body of literature concerning the development of code of the street values. However, several factors theorized to inform street code adherence have escaped examination. Prior res...
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Correction Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-02-13
Published in Deviant Behavior (Vol. 45, No. 4, 2024)
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Profiles of Death Penalty Attitudes: A Latent Class Approach Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Bryanna Fox, John K. Cochran, Melanie Escue
This study examines the heterogeneity in the demographic, normative, and experiential features of those who support, oppose, and are undecided on capital punishment to determine the complexity of c...
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Dark Web Activity in the Japanese Language Between 2004 and 2020: A Case Study of the Onion Channel Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Naoki Hiramoto, Yoichi Tsuchiya
This paper investigates the activity of Japanese-language dark web sites by examining a Japanese dark web forum, the Onion Channel. While global crypto markets and English-language forums have been...
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Morality in Moderation: Profiles of Moral Self and Behavioral Problems Among Children Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Jessica Wilke, Jule Eilts, Neele Bäker, Naska Goagoses
Middle childhood marks an important phase for moral and social-emotional development, yet little research has focused on a combined focus within this age range. A person-centered research approach ...
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Doing Gender and Doing Crime: The Influence of Biological Sex and Gender Identity on Crime Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Megan L. Swinehart, Thomas J. Mowen
Although research on the “gender gap” tends to show that males commit more crime than females, this research focuses almost exclusively on biological sex. Towards disentangling biology and sociolog...
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Exploring the Evolutionary-Biological Basis of Mating Strategies in Submissive Women: A Comparative Study in Three Subgroups of BDSM Sex Practitioners Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Eva Jozifkova, Martina Kolackova, Marek Broul
An evolutionary-biological framework may predict strengthened partners’ cohesion resulting from certain mating strategies. We compared interpersonal equality in a relationship, emotional (life scal...
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An Examination of Gender and Racial Differences for Social and Economic Causes of Suicide Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-01-07 Matthew D. Moore
There has been a plethora of research on fatal suicide behavior. Previous examinations on suicide have examined social factors, such as the divorce rate, and economic factors, such as unemployment....
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Deterrence Perceptions, Self-Control Ability and the Moral Filter: Conceptualizing and Testing a Model of a Subsidiary Relevance of Deterrence Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2024-01-04 Helmut Hirtenlehner, Heinz Leitgöb
The idea of differential deterrence suggests that deterrent effects vary across individuals and settings. However, the pertinent research is poorly integrated and lacks a coherent theoretical conce...
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We are All Green: Do Military Experiences and Involvement in the Criminal Justice System Vary Across Race and Ethnicity Among Incarcerated Veterans? Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-12-29 Jennifer H. Peck, Erika J. Brooke
Although participation in the military impacts the lives of all who serve, little research has examined how specific military experiences and criminal justice outcomes vary for veterans of color co...
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Emotional Processing and Psychopathy Among Women: A Systematic Review Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-12-26 Marina Pinheiro, Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves, Olga Cunha
Psychopathy in women has gained the attention of the scientific community, but research on the emotional processing in individuals with psychopathic traits and its role in criminal behavior is stil...
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Not a Fairy Tale at All! Examining the Factors Underlying the Myths About Domestic Violence Among Romanian, Highly Educated Adults Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Olga Gancevici, Alexandra Maftei
The myths about domestic violence refer to the false, stereotypical beliefs aimed to minimize, deny, or justify the aggression. The present research explored the factors underlying the myths about ...
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Interrupting Gang Homicide Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Bill Sanders, Khadija Monk
Interventionists are critical components of community-based gang programs. One practice they employ is diffusing or interrupting situations that lead to homicide. How they accomplish this is unclea...
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Strains, Negative Emotions, Propensity for Criminal Coping, and Delinquency: A Moderated Mediation Approach Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Wonki Lee
General strain theory (GST) maintains that the likelihood of individuals engaging in deviant behaviors as a coping mechanism for negative emotions is conditioned by one’s propensity for criminal co...
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Development and Validation of the 14-Item Intentions Toward Infidelity Scale Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Kashish Pandey, Shruti Narain, Azmat Jahan
Infidelity is labeled as an unforgivable betrayal in dyadic relationships. It is essential to understand the intentions of committing betrayal to interpret these behaviors. Previous researchers hav...
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From Taboo to Tolerance: Exploring the Complexities of Moral Judgments Toward Drug Use Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Benjamin Thomas Kuettel
For decades, researchers have explored how the public morally evaluates various behaviors, including those such as drug use and others traditionally considered deviant. While research suggests that...
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“Ladies I Hope You are in Church Right now”: Exploring Rape Myths from Social Media Comments in the Deep South Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-12-05 Taylor Ellis, Sarah Donley, Tina H. Deshotels, Ashley Anderson
This research examines online comments (n = 455) of news articles about sexual assault shared by local news outlets in a rural area of the Deep South to determine the degree to which rape myth acce...
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Correction: Street Youth, Violence, and Hirschi’s Redefinition of Self-Control Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-26
Published in Deviant Behavior (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Conservative Anger and Police Misconduct: Exploring Conservative Discussion of Police on Social Media Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Sydney Litterer
This exploratory study applies thematic analysis to posts made in a popular conservative subreddit on the social media platform Reddit to understand how conservatives discuss police with one anothe...
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Correction: Drug Dependency Due to Traumatic Childhood Experiences and Low Emotional Intelligence of Juvenile Felons in India Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-24
Published in Deviant Behavior (Ahead of Print, 2023)
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Propensity to Morally Disengage Scale: Psychometric Properties and Measurement Invariance Among a Portuguese Sample Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Pedro Pechorro, Bruno Bonfá-Araujo, Mário R. Simões, Cristina Nunes, Matt DeLisi
The propensity to morally disengage can be an essential driver of unethical, antisocial, and criminal behavior. The present study examines the psychometric properties of the Propensity to Morally D...
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UNPACKING the IMPACT of GRATITUDE on UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Junho Oh, Ye Kang Kim, Guihyun Park, Sujin Lee
Understanding and preventing unethical behavior is essential for social welfare. Prior research has shown that emotional processes have consequential effects on such behavior. The current work aims...
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Explaining the Unexplainable: Theorizing the Starving of the Disabled Other Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-14 Ryan Thorneycroft, Peta S. Cook, Nicole L. Asquith
Every year, stories emerge of cases involving the starvation of disabled people, such as Ann Marie Smith in 2020 in Adelaide, Australia. Despite this, starvation practices against disabled people r...
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Violence on Reddit Support Forums Unique to r/NoFap Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Nicole Prause, David Ley
Masturbation abstinence practices have returned to the USA in the form of semen retention communities. Followers on one of these male, anti-masturbation forums, “NoFap,” on Reddit (denoted “r/NoFap...
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Criminal Lifestyle Among Women Who Committed Crimes: The Role of Psychopathy Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Marina Pinheiro, Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves, Sónia Caridade, Olga Cunha
Research on women who committed crimes has not followed the same developments of males who committed crimes. The study of psychopathy and criminal lifestyle in female populations is one of the main...
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In Dubio Pro Reo: The Impact of Certainty and Uncertainty on the Identities and Beliefs of an Organized Crime Member Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Fabio Indìo Massimo Poppi
This study scrutinizes the influence of certainty and uncertainty on identity and beliefs. While certainty is often perceived as positive and uncertainty as negative for an individual, this researc...
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Flying as Self-Expression: Autonomy and Pole Dancing in Strip Clubs Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Dana Fennell, Clay A. Hipke
Political battles over strip clubs’ existence are informed by research, but existing literature neglects a central component of strippers’ work. This study analyzes strippers’ pole work and heeds d...
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Workplace Deviance Investigations: A Case Study of the Application of Maturity Model to a University Investigation Deviant Behavior (IF 1.716) Pub Date : 2023-10-23 Petter Gottschalk
This article presents a case study from Norway that supplements previous research in other jurisdictions such as Australia, Canada, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom regarding lack of justice...