Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization: A partial test of rational choice theory†
Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization: A partial test of rational choice theory† Abstract In prior tests of Beckerian rational choice theory, the notion that individuals are responsive…
Institutional anomie and cross‐national differences in incarceration†
Institutional anomie and cross‐national differences in incarceration† Abstract Messner and Rosenfeld's (2007) institutional anomie theory (IAT) has mainly been applied by criminologists to explain crime rates at various aggregate levels.…
Fearful futures and haunting histories in women’s desistance from crime: A longitudinal study of desistance as an uncanny process*
Fearful futures and haunting histories in women's desistance from crime: A longitudinal study of desistance as an uncanny process* Abstract Although desistance is increasingly recognized as a series of complex…
Pubertal timing and adolescent delinquency
Pubertal timing and adolescent delinquency Abstract Early pubertal timing (PT) increases the risk of adolescent delinquency, whereas late development reduces this risk; however, the mechanisms explaining PT effects on delinquency…
Neighborhood climates of legal cynicism and complaints about abuse of police power*
Neighborhood climates of legal cynicism and complaints about abuse of police power* Abstract Research findings show that legal cynicism—a cultural frame in which skepticism about laws, the legal system, and…
The public salience of crime, 1960–2014: Age–period–cohort and time–series analyses*
The public salience of crime, 1960–2014: Age–period–cohort and time–series analyses* Abstract The public salience of crime has wide‐ranging political and social implications; it influences public trust in the government and…
Feminist criminology in an era of misogyny*
Feminist criminology in an era of misogyny* Abstract In this address I make the case for continuing to focus criminological research on gender, sexism, and racism within our lives and…
Continuing education: Toward a life‐course perspective on social learning*
Continuing education: Toward a life‐course perspective on social learning* Abstract Sutherland's differential association theory and the life‐course perspective have at times been conceptualized as contrasting theories of criminal behavior. I…
Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization: A partial test of rational choice theory*
Perceived arrest risk, psychic rewards, and offense specialization: A partial test of rational choice theory* Abstract In prior tests of Beckerian rational choice theory, the notion that individuals are responsive…
Long‐term consequences of being placed in disciplinary segregation*
Long‐term consequences of being placed in disciplinary segregation* Abstract Being placed in restrictive housing is considered one of the most devastating experiences a human can endure, yet a scant amount…
Institutional anomie and cross‐national differences in incarceration*
Institutional anomie and cross‐national differences in incarceration* Abstract Messner and Rosenfeld's (2007) institutional anomie theory (IAT) has mainly been applied by criminologists to explain crime rates at various aggregate levels.…
“I was a homo thug, now I’m just homo”: Gay gang members’ desistance and persistence*
“I was a homo thug, now I'm just homo”: Gay gang members’ desistance and persistence* Abstract In a growing body of research, the methods of and motivations for gang desistance…