Corrie Williams, Tara Renae McGee, Shannon Walding, Christine E. W. Bond
{"title":"The Role of Prosocial Behaviour in the Deceleration of Conduct Problem Behaviour","authors":"Corrie Williams, Tara Renae McGee, Shannon Walding, Christine E. W. Bond","doi":"10.1007/s40865-024-00256-3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-024-00256-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While conduct problem behaviour initiated in early childhood often escalates in frequency and seriousness through adolescence, a notable deceleration is typically seen by mid-adolescence. It has been hypothesised that prosocial behaviour, characterised by acts like sharing and comforting, may play a role in this deceleration. However, there is a distinct gap in the current literature when it comes to understanding the temporal dynamics between the acceleration of prosocial behaviours and the deceleration of conduct problem behaviour. This study seeks to bridge this gap. Using a General Cross-Lagged Panel Model (GCLM) and data from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), we investigated temporal dynamics and sequence of how the acceleration of prosocial behaviour influences the deceleration of conduct problem behaviour between ages 4 and 15. Results indicate that increases in prosocial behaviour facilitate the deceleration of conduct problem behaviour, with increases in prosocial behaviour preceding decreases in conduct problem behaviour. Further, we show a cumulative effect of increases in prosocial behaviour on decreases in conduct problem behaviour over time. This knowledge provides a foundation for understanding how timely prevention and intervention strategies that include the mechanisms for increasing prosocial behaviour may interrupt the conduct problem behaviour trajectories of children and adolescents.\u0000</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141610038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Steve G. A. van de Weijer, Abigail Novak, Brian B. Boutwell
{"title":"Educational Attainment, Crime, and Causality: a Population-wide Sibling-based Design","authors":"Steve G. A. van de Weijer, Abigail Novak, Brian B. Boutwell","doi":"10.1007/s40865-024-00255-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-024-00255-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Criminologists have been interested in educational attainment for decades, a focus the field shares with virtually all other social and psychological sciences. The effects of formal schooling are expected to emerge across a host of developmental outcomes, but they are thought to be of particular relevance when assessing the risk of delinquency and crime. As time spent in formal schooling increases, the future risk of criminal offending is expected to fall precipitously. Associations between education and criminal outcomes have emerged repeatedly in the past, but evidence of <i>causal</i> effects remains in short order by comparison. In this study, register data from the Netherlands is used to examine the effects of educational attainment on offending in both adolescence and early adulthood. Using a population-wide discordant sibling design, our results are consistent with an argument that both education exposure and educational performance exert causal influences on criminal involvement. Until additional work of a similar nature is carried out, however, stronger assertions about the causal effects of education and crime remain premature.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"71 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-06-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141511251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Simon D. Venema, Marieke Haan, Eric Blaauw, René Veenstra
{"title":"Paternal Incarceration, Family Relationships, and Adolescents’ Internalizing and Externalizing Problem Behaviors","authors":"Simon D. Venema, Marieke Haan, Eric Blaauw, René Veenstra","doi":"10.1007/s40865-024-00253-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-024-00253-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Little is known about the conditions under which paternal incarceration is harmful to children and the mechanisms that explain this. This study addressed the family relationship context in the associations between paternal incarceration and adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors. Using data from the Future of Families and Child Wellbeing Study, a moderated mediation model was specified where paternal incarceration predicted adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors through family relationship quality, and where the mediating role of family relationship quality was moderated by pre-incarceration family relationship characteristics. Using latent profile analyses, three pre-incarceration family clusters were identified (“Cohesive”; “Fragmented”; “Disharmonious”). Analyses indicated that the association between paternal incarceration and family relationship quality differed across pre-incarceration family clusters and that decreased father-mother relationship quality mediated the negative association between paternal incarceration and adolescents’ internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors among “Cohesive” and “Fragmented”, but not among “Disharmonious” family clusters. The findings suggest that adolescents with more harmonious pre-incarceration family relationships are most vulnerable to the negative consequences of paternal incarceration. The study demonstrates the need to consider the family relationship context to understand the intergenerational consequences of incarceration.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"64 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140932091","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trait-Based Explanations of the Victim/Offender Overlap","authors":"Bridget Joyner-Carpanini, Kevin M. Beaver","doi":"10.1007/s40865-024-00250-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-024-00250-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The link between victimization and offending has been one of the most consistently revealed associations in criminology. Despite the wealth of literature produced on this topic, much still remains unknown, particularly from a developmental perspective. The current study expands on previous developmental research by examining whether low self-control, Machiavellianism, and callous-unemotional traits significantly distinguish victims or offenders from those who identify as both. To do so, we use data drawn from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). The analyses demonstrated that displaying high levels of low self-control and Machiavellianism differentiate victims from those who are victims and offenders. However, none of the investigated traits distinguished offenders from the overlap group. Additionally, the results were revealed to not be dependent upon the biological sex of the sample. We conclude by discussing the implications of the results of this study for future theory development and research.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139918094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Sebastian L. Kübel, Jessica R. Deitzer, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel P. Eisner, Jean-Louis van Gelder
{"title":"Beyond the Situation: Hanging Out with Peers now is Associated with Short-Term Mindsets Later","authors":"Sebastian L. Kübel, Jessica R. Deitzer, Willem E. Frankenhuis, Denis Ribeaud, Manuel P. Eisner, Jean-Louis van Gelder","doi":"10.1007/s40865-024-00249-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-024-00249-2","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is well-established that unstructured unsupervised socializing with peers (UUS) motivates deviance while in that specific context. In this article, we extend this situational view by arguing that repeated UUS may also gradually shape adolescents’ norms and decision making beyond the situation. Specifically, we argue that UUS promotes short-term mindsets, i.e., an increased focus on present rewards at the expense of considering future consequences. We test this hypothesis with fixed-effects models, using longitudinal data from a representative sample of 1,675 adolescents from Zurich, Switzerland. Consistent with our preregistered predictions, more frequent UUS is associated with increased short-term mindsets. Thus, our finding suggests that the effects of UUS on later deviance might be driven by becoming more present-oriented. This link offers new insights into the developmental pathways toward adolescent delinquency and offers a potential target for intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-02-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139772242","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Suzanne L. J. Kragten-Heerdink, Steve G. A. van de Weijer, Frank M. Weerman
{"title":"Criminal Careers of Domestic Sex Traffickers in the Netherlands: Distinguishing Different Offending Trajectories","authors":"Suzanne L. J. Kragten-Heerdink, Steve G. A. van de Weijer, Frank M. Weerman","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00247-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00247-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Human trafficking, among which domestic sex trafficking, is often only understood from the perspective of the victim, since research on traffickers — and in particular on their criminal careers — hardly exists. This is unfortunate, given that the wealth of longitudinal criminal career research on other offender populations has resulted in important theoretical and practical insights. This study therefore examines the offending trajectories of 630 domestic sex traffickers who were brought to court in the Netherlands, based on longitudinal judicial data. The results show that they are a heterogeneous and versatile offender group, similar to general offenders. A group-based trajectory analysis identified four subgroups following different offending trajectories between ages 12 and 35. <i>Low-rate offenders</i> (36%) start their criminal career late, mostly in adulthood, and for a relatively large share of them human trafficking is their first offense. <i>Early-peak offenders</i> (28%) are the youngest human traffickers and <i>late-peak offenders</i> (21%), after a slow start, do not seem to desist from offending on a regular base in adulthood. <i>High-rate-persistent offenders</i> (15%) have the youngest age of onset of crime in general and account for 40% of all criminal cases. On average, they have already more than 20 criminal cases registered against them, before committing human trafficking. This most problematic subgroup seems to be larger among domestic sex traffickers, than among general offenders. More research on criminal careers of domestic sex traffickers (and human traffickers in general) is needed, and should also focus on risk and protective factors that influence their offending trajectories.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"13 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2024-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139459523","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Lankester, C Coles, A Trotter, S Scott, J Downs, H Dickson, A Wickersham
{"title":"The Association Between Academic Achievement and Subsequent Youth Offending: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"M Lankester, C Coles, A Trotter, S Scott, J Downs, H Dickson, A Wickersham","doi":"10.1007/s40865-025-00266-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40865-025-00266-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The association between academic achievement and youth offending has yet to be clearly quantified. This meta-analysis aims to provide a robust estimate of the longitudinal association between academic achievement and subsequent youth offending. We searched PsycINFO, ERIC, British Education Index, and Web of Science from inception to 2 April 2024 using a comprehensive search strategy. We identified eligible studies reporting on the association between academic achievement and subsequent youth offending, as measured using self-report or administrative records up to the age of 25 years. Correlation coefficients and odds ratios were pooled in a meta-analysis. Effect modifiers were investigated in a sub-group analysis, and other findings were narratively synthesised. PROSPERO record: CRD42023402103. Seventeen studies were included, of which eight were pooled in a meta-analysis. The findings showed a small but statistically significant association between lower academic achievement and youth offending (pooled Fisher <i>z</i> = - 0.21, 95% CI [- 0.29, - 0.12], <i>I</i> <sup>2</sup> = 98.4%). Sub-group analysis and narrative synthesis yielded mixed findings on the possible role of measurement timing and offence types. Lower academic achievement was associated with subsequent youth offending, underlining the need for a child-first approach to early prevention and intervention strategies in educational and forensic settings.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40865-025-00266-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"10 4","pages":"477-500"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12102114/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144143921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Breanne E. Wylie, Lindsay C. Malloy, Adam Fine, Angela D. Evans
{"title":"Do Parents Have “The Talk” or Believe They Should?: Parent–Child Conversations About Interacting with the Police","authors":"Breanne E. Wylie, Lindsay C. Malloy, Adam Fine, Angela D. Evans","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00248-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00248-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parent–child conversations about how to interact with the police are colloquially known as “The Talk.” Studies have largely focused on the influence of age, race, and gender on the occurrence of such conversations. We extended this examination to other potentially influential factors as well as beliefs about whether parents <i>should</i> have “The Talk.” Parents of 5 to 17 year olds (<i>N</i> = 1131) completed questionnaires to assess the influence of demographics, child factors, and parent factors, on whether parents <i>have</i> talked to their child about how to interact with the police, and whether they believe parents <i>should</i> have such conversations. Though most parents believed parents <i>should</i> have “The Talk,” only half of parents <i>had</i> “The Talk” (around age 7). Binary logistic regressions revealed that whereas parental factors (anxiety, perceived discrimination) reduced beliefs that parents <i>should</i> have such conversations, child factors (affective reactivity) influenced whether parents <i>had</i> “The Talk.” Also, with greater perceived police bias and legitimacy, parents were more likely to have “The Talk” and believed parents <i>should</i>. Given that not all parents are having “The Talk” or believe parents <i>should,</i> we conclude that parents might need help in learning <i>how</i> to talk to their children about how to interact with the police.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139070595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James M. Ogilvie, Lisa Broidy, Carleen Thompson, Susan Dennison, Troy Allard, Aydan Kuluk, Belinda Crissman, Steve Kisely, Anna Stewart
{"title":"Trajectories of Offending and Mental Health Service Use: Similarities and Differences by Gender and Indigenous Status in an Australian Birth Cohort","authors":"James M. Ogilvie, Lisa Broidy, Carleen Thompson, Susan Dennison, Troy Allard, Aydan Kuluk, Belinda Crissman, Steve Kisely, Anna Stewart","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00246-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00246-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mental illness is firmly established as a risk factor for criminal legal system contact, particularly for women and Indigenous people. While patterns of criminal legal contact vary by gender and Indigenous status, we do not know how mental health contacts factor into these patterns. The aim of this research is to examine whether mental health characteristics and service contacts vary across patterns of criminal legal system contact defined by group-based trajectory modelling and to explore whether any such variation is consistent across gender and Indigenous status. Using linked administrative data from a 1990 Australian birth cohort (to age 23/24 years, <i>N</i> = 45,141), we estimate trajectories of criminal legal system contact and assess variation across groups defined by gender and Indigenous status. We then examine whether types of mental illness diagnoses and mental health service contacts varied across trajectory groups and whether this was consistent across gender and Indigenous status. Findings point to important differences in mental health system contact across offending trajectory groups. Differences are suggestive of variation in mental health system utilization at the intersection of gender and Indigenous statuses that are conditioned by patterns of criminal legal system contact. We conclude by outlining the implications of these patterns for life course theories of offending and for gender and culturally informed support and interventions directed towards system-involved individuals with mental health needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"249 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intergenerational Transmission of Trust in Criminal Justice Authorities Among Late Adolescents in the Netherlands","authors":"Amy Nivette, Amina op de Weegh, Eva Jaspers","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00245-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00245-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Relationships with parents, teachers, and peers can expose youth to different types of authority and legal orientations. In particular, parents are expected to play a key role in shaping youth’s perceptions of authority, as they are considered the primary agents of socialization throughout childhood and adolescence. However, few have directly assessed the intergenerational transmission of trust in authorities from parent to child and the mechanisms by which transmission is more or less effective. The current study assesses to what extent parental trust in criminal justice authorities (i.e., police and judges) is associated with trust in criminal justice authorities among a diverse sample of young adults in the Netherlands. Drawing from research on socialization and youth development, we also evaluate to what extent the quality of relationship with the parent conditions the degree of intergenerational transmission of trust in criminal justice authorities. Overall, we found that parental trust in criminal justice authorities measured when the youth were aged 19–20 was positively related to youth trust 1 year later. The quality of the relationship between parents and children was not directly related to youths’ trust in authorities, and for the most part did not moderate the effect of parent trust on youth trust.","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"91 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135320431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}