When life domains become problematic: A criminological exploration of academic dishonesty in Iran using Agnew's general theory of crime and delinquency

IF 2.5 1区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-05-26 DOI:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102439

Saeed Kabiri , Fawn T. Ngo

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Abstract

Academic dishonesty remains a widespread and complex challenge across educational institutions globally. This study applied Agnew's (2005) General Theory of Crime and Delinquency to examine the relationship between problematic life domains and students' engagement in academic dishonesty using a sample of 424 students from the University of Tehran. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was employed to analyze the data, revealing significant associations between all four problematic life domains - self, family, academic, and peer and academic dishonesty. The results further demonstrated that motivations for and constraints against academic dishonesty mediate the relationship between problematic life domains and dishonest behaviors. Additionally, interactions between troubling life domains influenced academic dishonesty, and these domains also moderated the relationship between motivations, constraints, and academic dishonesty. Findings from multigroup analyses highlighted partial gender differences in these pathways, suggesting that the factors influencing academic dishonesty may operate differently across male and female students.

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当生活领域变得有问题：用阿格纽的犯罪和犯罪一般理论对伊朗学术不诚实的犯罪学探索

学术不诚实仍然是全球教育机构普遍而复杂的挑战。本研究采用Agnew（2005）的《犯罪与犯罪通论》，以德黑兰大学424名学生为样本，研究问题生活领域与学生学术不诚实之间的关系。采用结构方程模型（SEM）对数据进行分析，揭示了自我、家庭、学术和同伴四个问题生活领域与学术不诚实之间的显著关联。研究结果进一步表明，学术不诚实的动机和约束在问题生活域与不诚实行为之间的关系中起中介作用。此外，烦恼生活域之间的相互作用影响学术不诚实，这些域也调节动机、约束和学术不诚实之间的关系。多组分析的结果强调了这些途径的部分性别差异，表明影响学术不诚实的因素在男女学生中可能不同。

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Journal of Criminal Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

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6.90

自引率

9.10%

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审稿时长

23 days

期刊介绍： The Journal of Criminal Justice is an international journal intended to fill the present need for the dissemination of new information, ideas and methods, to both practitioners and academicians in the criminal justice area. The Journal is concerned with all aspects of the criminal justice system in terms of their relationships to each other. Although materials are presented relating to crime and the individual elements of the criminal justice system, the emphasis of the Journal is to tie together the functioning of these elements and to illustrate the effects of their interactions. Articles that reflect the application of new disciplines or analytical methodologies to the problems of criminal justice are of special interest. Since the purpose of the Journal is to provide a forum for the dissemination of new ideas, new information, and the application of new methods to the problems and functions of the criminal justice system, the Journal emphasizes innovation and creative thought of the highest quality.