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Intimate Partner Violence During a Public Health Crisis: Variations in Conflict and Post Conflict Contexts Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Laura Iesue, Anastasiia Timmer, Olga Lozovska, Jenifer González, Ali Jawaid
This study draws on survey data collected in a country embroiled in war, Ukraine, and a post-conflict country, Guatemala, to examine the influence of traumatic events on intimate partner violence victimization. Logistic regression models revealed that experiencing pandemic stress (e.g., fears of the virus, vaccine issues, and health care concerns) and daily hassles (e.g., family issues, financial problems
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“There Are Not Enough Lawyers, and There Are Not Enough Financial Resources”: Canadian and American Intimate Partner Violence Service Providers’ Perspectives for Better Supporting Immigrant Women Survivors Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Danielle C. Slakoff, Wendy Aujla, Lauren N. Moton, Stacie Merken
Immigrant women are at a high risk of intimate partner violence (IPV) and experience many challenges to help-seeking. Currently, little is known about IPV service providers’ perspectives for better supporting immigrant women within their agencies. Drawing on an intersectional framework, constructivist grounded theory (CGT) with a modified written vignette technique was employed. Online surveys were
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“It’s the Best Thing in the World Around Here”: The Potential for Protective Places in a High Crime Neighborhood Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Lauren C. Porter, Alaina De Biasi, Eric Jefferis, Andrew Curtis
Our study explores whether certain establishments repel crime in a high-crime neighborhood. We draw on interviews with 35 neighborhood insiders in 2014 and 2015, consisting of ex-offenders, residents, and police. We examine the spatial relationships between places identified by participants—churches, parks, and community gardens—and calls for service (CFS) using Ripley’s network bivariate K-function
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“. . .It’s Just the Barriers That Can Be So Vast and Different”: Domestic Violence Advocates’ Perceived Barriers for Service Across Survivor Subpopulations Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Shon M. Reed, MacKenzie A. Kibler, Susana Avalos
Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a serious issue that impacts people of all demographics. Despite its pervasiveness, IPV survivors often seek help from informal sources of help over formal help sources, such as victim service providers (VSPs). This can prove to be an issue as VSPs provide crucial services that assist survivors in exiting abusive relationships. Using content analysis, the current
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Gender Expression, Skin Tone, Race/Ethnicity, LGBQ+ Identity, Discrimination, and Victimization: Moving Beyond Binaries Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-09 Jennifer Tabler, Katelyn Golladay, Jamie A. Snyder, Matthew A. Painter
Applying an intersectional framework, this study moves beyond binary categories of sexuality, gender, and race/ethnicity and considers the role of skin tone (colorism), gender expression, and sexual identity, in victimization risk. Using data ( N = 9,108) from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we evaluate associations between everyday discrimination, intimate partner violence
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Examining Homicides, Victims, Socioeconomic Context, and Weather Conditions in Mexico Through Spatio-Temporal Dimensions Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Karla Trejo, Francisco Carrillo-Brenes, Luis M. Vilches-Blázquez, Ramón Salat
Mexico has steadily increased homicide rates over the past few decades. To better understand this phenomenon, we examine homicides, victims, socioeconomic context, and weather conditions by focusing on two critical dimensions of crimes: space and time. We implement diverse regression models considering spatial (Geographically Weighted Regression) and spatio-temporal (Geographical and Temporal Weighted
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Punishing Hate: Examining Individual Variation in Support for Hate Crime Laws Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Brendan Lantz, Matthew Vanden Bosch, Marin R. Wenger, Zachary T. Malcom
While first implemented in the 1980s, hate crime legislation remains divisive in America; yet, most research examining differences in support for hate crime laws was conducted decades ago. This research addresses this gap by examining individual differences in support for hate crime laws using information from 3,503 survey respondents across the U.S. The results indicate that most respondents (66%)
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The Link Between Adverse Childhood Experiences and Mental Health in Offenders: A Systematic Review Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Telma M. G. Pessoa, Telma Catarina Almeida
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and mental health issues are highly prevalent in the history of adult offenders, as they affect an individual’s social, psychological, and emotional development and, consequently, their welfare and role in society. The present study explores the relationship between ACEs and mental health in adult offenders. B-on, Psycnet, Pubmed, Scielo, Scopus, and Web of Science
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Justice-Involvement and Access to Mental Health Care Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-02 Katy Hancock
Barriers to mental health treatment are underscored in the justice-involved (JI) population, which faces multiple stigma and greater social and economic disadvantage. Indeed, some have suggested that greater access to community treatment may prevent re-arrest. By analyzing the 2021 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the impact of JI status on probability of various barriers to mental health treatment
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Timely Intelligence Enhances Criminal Investigations: Investigators’ Ratings of Ballistics Imaging Across Three Cities Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-04-01 Jessica Huff, William R. King, Charles M. Katz, Natalie Kroovand Hipple, Kenneth J. Novak, Silas Patterson
The National Integrated Ballistics Information Network (NIBIN), a database of ballistic evidence from crime scenes, seeks to provide investigative leads by linking separate offenses involving the same weapons. Using surveys about 570 gun crimes in Indianapolis, Kansas City, and Phoenix, we examine perceptions of NIBIN, and whether lead timeliness influences those perceptions. Detectives who receive
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Bullying Victimization, Gender, and Adolescent Substance Use: The Moderating Role of School Connectedness Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-03-29 Peter S. Lehmann, Anne C. Wingert, Melissa S. Jones
A substantial body of research has demonstrated that bullying victimization is positively associated with illicit substance use, though whether this relationship is stronger among female or male youth remains unclear. Additionally, while connectedness to school represents a robust protective factor against negative health and behavioral outcomes, limited research has examined if it might weaken the
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Predictors of Attrition in the Pathways to Desistance Study: Testing for Differential Salience Across Time Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Thomas Wojciechowski
There is limited research examining predictors of attrition in the Pathways to Desistance study. There is also a paucity of research examining time-varying effects of predictors of attrition. Changes in characteristics across a study period may lead to the emergence of increases/decreases in attrition risk across time. The Pathways to Desistance dataset (11 waves) was analyzed. Cox proportional hazard
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Missing the Mark? A Typology of Lethal and Non-Lethal Firearm Violence in the Netherlands Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-03-27 Katharina Krüsselmann, Pauline Aarten, Marieke Liem
Firearm violence in Europe is a complex phenomenon; it manifests itself in various contexts and circumstances, involving different types of victims and perpetrators. Yet, previous research does not account for this complexity and focuses mainly on lethal firearm violence alone. In this study, we use 243 cases of lethal shootings (2015–2021) and 807 cases of non-lethal shootings in the Netherlands (2018–2021)
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Intimate Partner Violence and Partner Incarceration: Perceived and Experienced Challenges During Reentry Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-03-26 Katherine A. Durante, Eman Tadros, Danielle C. Slakoff
Women’s experiences with intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization and concerns and challenges regarding their partner’s reentry after prison were analyzed using three waves of panel data ( n = 866). Having been a victim of IPV before their partner’s incarceration, especially of incidents involving emotional violence and alcohol or drug use, is associated with elevated concerns regarding their
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The Unintended Effects of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) in a Maximum-Security Prison for Women: Weaponization, Bullying, and Compulsory Heterosexuality Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Creaig A. Dunton, Hayden P. Smith, Frank Ferdik
Research on the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) has overwhelmingly focused on male correctional institutions, neglecting female ones. Sexual violence is also of concern within female prisons, and the need arises to understand whether PREA is achieving the goal of eradicating sexual misconduct in prisons housing women, or if the policy is having unintended effects. Based on results from surveys collected
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Policing and the Safety Logic in the School Context: Perceptions of Danger and Definitions of Law Enforcement Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Ethan M. Higgins, Benjamin W. Fisher, Suzanne Overstreet, Cherie Dawson-Edwards
How police construct definitions of law enforcement has been a longstanding inquiry in criminology. This research has demonstrated that police subculture values, such as how police are socialized to hyperfocus on danger and safety, can have a strong influence on officer decisions. These cultural logics can intersect with conditions of the environment to shape definitions of law enforcement. Particularly
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Minimizing Responsibility: The Impact of Moral Disengagement on Cyberbullying Perpetration Among Adults Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Erica R. Fissel, Sara L. Bryson, Jin R. Lee
Research has demonstrated a relationship between moral disengagement and cyberbullying perpetration among adolescents, indicating youth with higher levels of moral disengagement are more likely to engage in cyberbullying. Less is known, however, regarding the impact of moral disengagement, particularly the influence of the four dimensions, on adults’ involvement in cyberbullying perpetration. Using
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Explaining Medical Cannabis Diversion Among Medical Cannabis License Holders: A Moderation Model Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Vered Ne’eman-Haviv, Ron Paz
This study explores cannabis diversion and its associated factors through the lens of procedural justice theory and deterrence concepts. A quantitative research survey was conducted among 202 medical cannabis license holders in Israel to assess the prevalence, frequency, attitudes, trust in the healthcare system, and fear of punishment related to medical cannabis diversion. Our findings revealed that
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Does Crime Affect Inbound Tourism? Evidence From a Sub-national Perspective in Japan Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Jing Cheng, Yida Wu, Kun Chen
Inbound tourism is welcomed by many governments due to its numerous benefits for the destination country. Besides, crime is often considered a factor that negatively affects tourism; but empirical evidence does not universally support this perspective. Therefore, this study investigates the impact of crime on inbound tourism using Japan as a case study. For further investigating the spatial externalities
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U.S. District Court Judicial Diversity: The Impact of Race and Sex Composition on Sentencing Outcomes at the District Level Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Matthew S. Crow, Natalie Goulette
The demographic diversity of the federal bench has emerged as a salient issue for the American public. Although research has examined the impact of judges’ race and sex on various court outcomes, including sentencing, for several decades across different levels of courts, findings remain mixed. Race and sex diversity of the U.S. District Courts has increased in recent years, coinciding with the transition
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Decision Making in the Real World: Unpacking the Black Box of the Decision Process for Youth Violence Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-24 Carole Gibbs, Jennifer E. Cobbina-Dungy, Alaina De Biasi, Louie Rivers, Jessica Light, Taylor Momenee
Criminologists typically test rational choice theory by examining the relationship between one aspect of decision making—the perceived costs and benefits of crime—and the likelihood of crime, primarily using (experimental) surveys that lack consideration of the neighborhood context. Building on decades of research in the risk and decision sciences, the current study utilizes broader models of decision
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Women’s Life Strains, Race/Ethnicity, and Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Joanne M. Kaufman
While women manifest high rates of Intimate partner violence (IPV) victimization, they may perpetrate violence and levels vary by race/ethnicity. Drawing on racial/ethnic extensions of General Strain Theory (GST), I examine IPV perpetration among Black, Latina, and White women using the Add Health data. I found that life strains, especially financial problems and prior IPV victimization, were associated
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Trajectories of Software Piracy and Multi-Domain Predictors Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Yeungjeom Lee, Jihoon Kim, Wesley Jennings, Ethan Yih Chian Wu
This study aims to deepen the understanding of software piracy through a developmental perspective and risk and protective factors approach. We employ group-based trajectory modeling to identify the trajectories of software piracy and investigate the influence of various risk and protective factors via a series of multinomial logistic regressions. Youth engagement in software piracy generally increases
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The Relationships Between Mental Health and Violent Offending Among Serious Adolescent Offenders: An Examination of the Mediating Role of Experienced and Witnessed Victimization Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Jihoon Kim, Michelle N. Harris, Yeungjeom Lee
Although a long line of research has examined the association between mental health and offending, previous literature primarily focused on the uni-directional path from mental health problems to offending, or vice versa. Also, there is still much to learn about how different types of victimization are related to the link between the two. To examine these questions, a series of fixed-effect models
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College Students’ Perceptions of Rape: An Exploratory Study Through the Use of Visual Vignettes Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Samantha M. Gavin
While research has examined the level of blame placed on victims and perpetrators for rape and sexual assault in simulations, there is very little research examining whether college students can accurately identify rape. In addition, the simulations presented to students in this area of research have overwhelmingly focused on female victims and male perpetrators and tend to use audio or read vignettes
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“Context Is to Data What Water Is to a Dolphin”*: Social-Historical Conditions, Criminal Histories, and Recidivism Across Five Prisoner Cohorts Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-21 Alex R. Piquero, Matthew R. Durose
Understanding offending patterns over the life-course has been a key feature of criminological thought and scholarship since the discipline’s inception. Recent research has brought forth new thinking into how social-historical conditions may influence correlates of crime as well as offending patterns across different eras. Missing from this line of research has been the extent to which rates of recidivism
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Violent Victimization of Youth With Mental Disorders: Does Lifestyles/Routine Activities or Control Perspectives Mediate the Relationship Between Mental Illness and Victimization? Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Michelle N. Harris
Youth with mental disorders, especially those involved in the criminal justice system, experience violent victimization at greater rates when compared to the general population. Despite this, few studies examine mediating factors drawn from criminological theory to explain why this population experiences victimization at greater rates than the general population, nor identifies factors that explain
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Exploring Sexual Homicide by Overarching Groups of Victims Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-16 Hava Dayan
This study followed recent studies venturing into a victimological path of sexual homicide research. In doing so, it aimed to identify possible distinct overarching groups of victims. A latent class analysis based on statistically significant differences in a census of 107 cases in Israel during 71 years (1948–2019) involving four identified groups of victims suggested a typology of two overarching
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Community-Level Relationships Between Homelessness and Crime in Finland Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Fred E. Markowitz
Evidence from several countries indicates that homeless persons, particularly those with a mental illness, are at increased risk of offending and victimization. However, there has been little community-level analysis of the relationship between homelessness and crime rates. In this study, we discuss the criminogenic consequences of homelessness and then use panel data from 261 municipalities over a
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Sensible Pretrial Reform: The Importance of Accounting for Risk of Violence in Judicial Release Decisions Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-15 Ryan M. Labrecque, Matthew DeMichele, Jason Walker, Ian A. Silver
This study uses data collected from three diverse counties in the United States between 2017 and 2019 to compare the performance of a pretrial risk instrument—the Public Safety Assessment (or PSA)—to a revised version of the tool that accounts for risk of future violence in predicting three pretrial release outcomes. Results indicate the suggested three tiered release levels produced from the current
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Against the Clock: Crime Victim Compensation Law and Temporality Across the 50 United States Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Julio Montanez, Amy Donley
Violence can result in insurmountable losses for victim-survivors. Restitutive and compensatory measures have been historically and contemporarily implemented to address these harms. Crime victim compensation (CVC) is a means by which the state reimburses victim-survivors of violent harm without relying on offender restitution. Overall, the current study argues that CVC laws and regulations may marginalize
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Differences in Time to Reported First Arrest by Race, National Origin, and Immigrant Generation: A Test of Assimilation Theories Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-02-01 Christopher Inkpen
This study examines immigrant assimilation theories by focusing on arrest during adolescence and adult life using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, a nationally representative panel study that follows children from adolescence through adulthood. The analysis compares outcomes for the first and second-generation of Mexican origin and other parts of Latin America to third- and fourth-plus
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Police Shootings in Canada: An Empirical Analysis and Call for Data Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Rylan Simpson, Justin Nix
We analyzed police shootings in Canada (except Québec) between 2017 and 2019. Drawing upon media reports and information provided by police oversight agencies, we attempted to identify all incidents where on-duty police officers discharged their firearm with the intent to strike a person. Findings indicated that such incidents occurred an average of 58 times per year. Approximately 39% of police shootings
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Unpacking the Mechanisms Connecting: Internal and External Procedural Fairness Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 David H. F. Tyler
Studies of the effects of internal procedural fairness within police departments have consistently shown that officers who report experiencing procedural fairness within their departments also support procedurally fair policing practices. In this article, I compare two theories put forth to explain this connection: the Fair Policing from the Inside Out model and the Group Engagement Model. Using a
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The Relative Impacts of Peer Disapproval, Parental Disapproval, and Perceptions of Risk on Adolescent Marijuana Use Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-31 Sean P. Varano, Pamela Kelley, Laurie Becker
Adolescent drug use has consistently been a concern for researchers and policymakers for decades as its early onset and continued use can lead to a variety of negative life outcomes. Concerns related to marijuana use have emerged in recent years as states have begun to change laws regarding recreational cannabis use. The current study uses data from a cohort of students in Massachusetts to understand
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Consequences of Identity Theft Victimization: Disabilities and Mental Distress Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Yasemin Irvin-Erickson
This study contributes to the growing literature on consequences of identity theft victimization as well as the broader literature on disabilities and victimization by exploring the connection between mental distress and disability status of an identity theft victim. This study analyzes data from the 2018 iteration of the National Crime Victimization Survey Identity Theft Supplement. Specifically,
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Juvenile Offending Among Maltreated Youth: Assessing Type-Specificity and Offense Specialization in the Cycle of Violence Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-28 Allison Kurpiel, Christian M. Connell, Sarah A. Font
This study assesses how different forms of abuse and neglect are associated with juvenile offending, with specific emphasis on whether youth commit offenses analogous to the illicit parental behaviors to which they were exposed. Using statewide child welfare system data linked with juvenile offending records, we assess rates and types of offending among a cohort of youth exposed to child maltreatment
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Further Exploring the Relationship Between Virtual Socializing and Adolescent Vaping Activity Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Cashen M. Boccio, Dylan B. Jackson, Wanda E. Leal
Previous research suggests that virtual socializing is associated with adolescent substance use and vaping activity. However, at present, very little research has explored the functional form of this relationship. This study extends the current research by testing for nonlinearity in the relationship between virtual socializing and adolescent vaping activity using data from the 2018 eighth and tenth
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Male Perpetrators of Child Sexual Abuse: A Comparison Between Individuals Serving Custodial and Non-Custodial Sentences Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-25 Marta Sousa, Olga Cunha, Rui Abrunhosa Gonçalves, Andreia de Castro Rodrigues
The literature considers individuals who sexually offended children (ISOCs) as a heterogeneous group. In Portugal, ISOCs may be subject to two types of sentences: custodial and non-custodial measures. In the present study, we performed a comparative analysis between 66 male individuals sentenced to prison and 47 male individuals sentenced to community measures for sexual crimes against children, using
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Investigating the Impact of Prior Criminal Justice Contact on Labor Market Outcomes During the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Propensity Score Analysis Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-22 Alex O. Widdowson, Anna M. Kyser
Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97) and a supplemental COVID sample of NLSY97 respondents, we examined the associations between three measures of criminal justice contact and several indicators of labor market participation during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. Findings indicated that a history of adult criminal justice contact was associated with higher
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Exploring the Association between Levels of Police Presence, Contact, and Perceptions of Police Legitimacy Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Qassim Bolaji, Christi Metcalfe
Our goal was to investigate how increased police presence and contact are related to police-community relations, and whether this relationship may be different for those who are more likely to be subject to targeted policing practices, especially those with preexisting lower procedural justice assessments, living in disadvantaged communities, and having prior experience with the criminal justice system
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The Effect of the CARES Act on Property Crime Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Peter P. Cassino
As a means of reducing the effects of COVID-19, governments implemented mitigation policies, including economic stimulus bills. Nearly all known research in the criminal justice literature examines...
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Progressive Politics and Policy Setting: Examining Criminal Justice Reform Efforts by Black Prosecutors Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Tri Keah S. Henry, Tyeisha Fordham, Julius Mitchell
Increasing awareness of racial disparities in case processing and sentencing has led justice reform advocates to challenge locally elected officials, specifically chief prosecutors, to address disp...
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Certainty, But How Certain? Severity, But How Severe? A Quasi-Experimental Study on Digital Piracy Deterrence in a Spanish Citizens Sample Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Ana B. Gómez-Bellvís, Alex R. Piquero, Fernando Miró-Llinares, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Fco. Javier Castro-Toledo
The assumptions underlying classical deterrence remain an underpinning of most legal systems. Although empirical research on deterrence is extensive, less investigated are the conditions under whic...
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Benevolent and Adverse Childhood Experiences and Attachment in Adulthood: A Comparative Study Between Sex Offenders and the General Population Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-05-06 Telma Catarina Almeida, Sara Marisa Costa
Childhood experiences influence individuals’ perceptions of themselves and their future. This study aimed to analyze the relationship between benevolent childhood experiences (BCEs), adverse childh...
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Perceived Dangerousness Mediates Punitive Attitudes Toward Sex Offenders: Results From a Vignette Experiment Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-29 Nathan E. Kruis, Kim S. Ménard, Jaeyong Choi, Nicholas J. Rowland, Tyler Frye, Rachel Kosaka, Alicia Williams
The current study used an experimental vignette (n = 1,093) to examine the effects of perpetrator sex and age, and victim sex and age, on simulated juror sentencing recommendations for individuals ...
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Assessing the Validity of Criminological Theories of Misconduct in Jail Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-28 Carrie L. Cook, Min Kim
This research examines the validity of criminological theories of misconduct in jails, a setting often overlooked in research on this topic. Prior research suggests that the processes that underlie...
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An Empirical Comparison of a Traditional Strategy and Network Scale-Up Method for Prevalence Estimation of Child Trafficking in Sierra Leone Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Hui Yi, Kyle Vincent, David Okech, Jody Clay-Warner, Jiacheng Li, Tenshi Kawashima, Timothy G. Edgemon, Lydia Aletraris, Fred Hassan Konteh
The goal of this paper is to compare a traditional survey method with the network scale-up method (NSUM) for the prevalence estimation of child trafficking in Sierra Leone in 2020. The traditional ...
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Assessing Aftercare Reforms in Pennsylvania’s Juvenile Justice System Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-27 Monica Mielke
Aftercare seeks to address challenges juveniles face when re-entering the community after residential placement. This study compares changes in recidivism in five Pennsylvania counties that piloted...
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Spanish Validation of the Self-Reported Antisocial Behavior Questionnaire and Comparison of Adolescent Antisocial Behaviors Between Pittsburgh and Cordoba Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-18 Raquel Espejo-Siles, Elena Nasaescu, Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington
Antisocial behavior is a worldwide problem that negatively affects individuals and societies, and it is influenced by contextual factors. The study of how antisocial behavior changes through time f...
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The Influence of Formal and Informal Sanctions on Offending: The Moderating Role of Legal Cynicism Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 Amanda Heitkamp, Thomas J. Mowen
Work on deterrence demonstrates that high perceptions of formal sanctions (e.g., arrest) and informal sanctions (e.g., negative reactions from others) both relate to decreased offending behaviors. ...
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Crime Prevention in the Classroom: Gendered Impacts on Offending Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-06 SooHyun O, YongJei Lee, Pamela Wilcox
This study examines school-based crime prevention tactics using a place management framework in conjunction with deterrence and labeling theoretical perspectives. We examine the effects of four dif...
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Domestic Abuse: Growth Curve Modeling of Harm Across Repeat Incidents with Police Data Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Katharine A. Boyd, Lewys Brace, Jenna Thomas
This paper analyzes trajectories of harm across repeat domestic abuse (DA) incidents using data from one police force in England and Wales matched with the Crime Harm Index. We use growth curve mod...
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Beating the Gun—One Conversation at a Time? Evaluating the Impact of DC’s “Cure the Streets” Public Health Intervention Against Gun Violence Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-04-03 Natalie Chwalisz
Violence interrupters (VI) operate as mediators after gang-involved shootings to stop retributory shootings. While some cities, like Chicago, have seen initial success, other cities, such as Boston...
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Resilience and Violent Victimization of Youth With Mental Disorders: Group Differences Based on Sex? Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Michelle N. Harris
Youth with mental disorders are at elevated risk to experience violent victimization compared to the general population, and several risk factors have been identified. Less understood are factors t...
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Theft Victimization in Urban Settings: Comparison of Tourist and Resident Case Profiles Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-03-31 Nerea Marteache, Alexander Trinidad
The relationship between urban tourism and crime has been well documented, although a focus on the specifics of tourist victimization is lacking. This study explores police-recorded thefts against ...
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Intimate Partner Violence Victimization: Assessing the Applicability of Social Interactionist Theory Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-03-28 Egbert Zavala, Alondra D. Garza
A growing body of research has applied Felson’s social interactionist theory to understand violent victimization. The theory claims that individuals experiencing stressful life events or negative a...
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Violent Behavior and Social Network Antisocial and Prosocial Behaviors Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Chau-kiu Cheung
While the youth’s social network has affected violent behavior, the influences of different kinds of networks and their behaviors have been unclear. Accordingly, the antisocial and prosocial of the...
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Examining Train Stations as Crime Generators and the Protective Effect of “Regular” Riders Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Renee Zahnow
Understanding whose eyes make up the ambient population is an important development of crime opportunities research. We hypothesize that regularity at train stations will influence place-awareness ...
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“Let’s Talk About Stealing Sh*t”: Online Socialization and Its Potential to Influence Offline Offending Crime & Delinquency (IF 2.307) Pub Date : 2023-03-27 Samantha J. Brown, Jonathan C. Reid, Wesley Myers
Social media use has significantly increased in recent years, yet relatively few studies have applied criminological theory to understand how online spaces may influence offline criminal behavior. ...