Out of sight: Contextualizing risk avoidant routine activity

IF 2.5 1区社会学 Q1 CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY

Journal of Criminal Justice Pub Date : 2025-06-06 DOI:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102449

Andrea Hazelwood M.S., Pamela Wilcox PhD

{"title":"Out of sight: Contextualizing risk avoidant routine activity","authors":"Andrea Hazelwood M.S., Pamela Wilcox PhD","doi":"10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102449","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Individuals often attempt to mitigate crime risk through avoidance behaviors, thus shaping their routine activities. Several theoretical approaches help understand such avoidance behavior, including (1) a framework that views avoidance as a rational choice based on crime risk interpretation, and (2) a framework that views avoidance as rooted in perceptions of weakened collective security and police illegitimacy. The current study examines these perspectives simultaneously, using both fear of victimization and perception of police illegitimacy as key variables underlying avoidance behavior. Further, we examine the extent to which these two variables differentially serve as mechanisms underlying avoidance across demographic positionality (gender and race/ethnicity), place (urbanicity), and the intersection thereof. Using a representative sample of U.S. residents (<em>N</em> = 1500), we estimate structural equation models to observe the direct and indirect pathways linking positionality, perceived risk of victimization, attitudes towards police, and avoidance behaviors.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48272,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Criminal Justice","volume":"99 ","pages":"Article 102449"},"PeriodicalIF":2.5000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Criminal Justice","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047235225000984","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

Abstract

Individuals often attempt to mitigate crime risk through avoidance behaviors, thus shaping their routine activities. Several theoretical approaches help understand such avoidance behavior, including (1) a framework that views avoidance as a rational choice based on crime risk interpretation, and (2) a framework that views avoidance as rooted in perceptions of weakened collective security and police illegitimacy. The current study examines these perspectives simultaneously, using both fear of victimization and perception of police illegitimacy as key variables underlying avoidance behavior. Further, we examine the extent to which these two variables differentially serve as mechanisms underlying avoidance across demographic positionality (gender and race/ethnicity), place (urbanicity), and the intersection thereof. Using a representative sample of U.S. residents (N = 1500), we estimate structural equation models to observe the direct and indirect pathways linking positionality, perceived risk of victimization, attitudes towards police, and avoidance behaviors.

查看原文本刊更多论文

看不见的：情境化风险回避的日常活动

个人经常试图通过回避行为来降低犯罪风险，从而塑造他们的日常活动。有几种理论方法有助于理解这种回避行为，包括(1)将回避视为基于犯罪风险解释的理性选择的框架，以及(2)将回避视为根植于集体安全和警察非法性削弱的看法的框架。当前的研究同时考察了这些观点，使用对受害的恐惧和对警察非法性的感知作为回避行为的关键变量。此外，我们还研究了这两个变量在多大程度上作为跨人口定位（性别和种族/民族）、地点（城市化）及其交集的潜在回避机制。利用美国居民的代表性样本（N = 1500），我们估计了结构方程模型，以观察联系位置性、感知受害风险、对警察的态度和回避行为的直接和间接途径。

本文章由计算机程序翻译，如有差异，请以英文原文为准。

求助全文

约1分钟内获得全文求助全文

来源期刊

Journal of Criminal Justice CRIMINOLOGY & PENOLOGY-

CiteScore

6.90

自引率

9.10%

发文量

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.