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…
Race and policing in the 2016 presidential election: Black lives matter, the police, and dog whistle politics
Race and policing in the 2016 presidential election: Black lives matter, the police, and dog whistle politics Abstract A series of deaths of Black Americans at the hands of the…
Similarity between deviant peers: Developmental trends in influence and selection*
Similarity between deviant peers: Developmental trends in influence and selection* Abstract The association between an adolescent's own behavior and that of his or her peers remains a key empirical finding…