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Scott Menard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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“It Was a Bum Rap” Self-Reports of Being Erroneously Arrested in a National Sample
Criminal Justice Review, 2014Co-Authors: Wendi Pollock, Scott MenardAbstract:Individual-level predictors of erroneous arrest for Illegal Behavior are investigated using a national level, probability sample. The analysis specifically examines whether being a “usual suspect” ...
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Self Reports of Being Falsely Accused of Criminal Behavior
Deviant Behavior, 2014Co-Authors: Scott Menard, Wendi PollockAbstract:The occurrence of false accusations of Illegal Behavior is investigated using cross-sectional, long-term recall data for two generations of a national probability sample of individuals. The analysis examines whether being a “usual suspect” based on past criminal Behavior; “guilt by association” based on the Illegal Behavior of one's friends; academic achievement based on self-reported grades in school; and sociodemographic variables including gender, ethnic majority/minority status, and socioeconomic status have an impact on the likelihood of being falsely accused of Illegal Behavior. The results indicate some consistency across the different subsamples in the characteristics of those most likely to be falsely accused of Illegal Behavior. Implications for policy and future research are considered.
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Long term impact of youth sports participation on Illegal Behavior
The Social Science Journal, 2013Co-Authors: Blake S. Davis, Scott MenardAbstract:Abstract Previous research into the relationship between sports and Illegal Behavior has left it unclear whether sports participation acts as a preventative measure or a risk factor for Illegal Behavior. The present study examines the relationship between sports involvement and Illegal Behavior, in both the long and the short-term, in a national sample, using propensity score matching and negative binomial regression to examine the short and long-term impacts of youth sports participation and adult Illegal Behavior. The results suggest that in general, sports participation has very little if any direct impact on Illegal Behavior, but participation specifically in contact sports, either alone or in combination with participation in noncontact sports, is associated with reduced frequency of some Illegal Behaviors. Implications for policy and future research are considered.
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Delinquent bonding, moral beliefs, and Illegal Behavior: A three-wave panel model
Justice Quarterly, 1994Co-Authors: Scott Menard, Delbert S. ElliottAbstract:This paper examines the relationships among delinquent peer group bonding, conventional moral beliefs, and the frequency of minor and serious Illegal Behavior in the framework of an integrated theory of delinquent Behavior. Three-wave, three-variable structural equation models are tested for minor and serious Illegal Behavior with data from a national longitudinal probability sample. The results are generally consistent with the integrated theory. Theoretical and methodological implications of the results are considered in the context of previous research on delinquent peer group bonding, moral beliefs, and Illegal Behavior.
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Changes in Conventional Attitudes and Delinquent Behavior in Adolescence
Youth & Society, 1994Co-Authors: Scott Menard, David HuizingaAbstract:The relationship between conventional beliefs and Illegal Behavior is a concern of social psychological theories (cognitive consistency) and criminological theories (learning and control). Empirical evidence from correlational studies has, to date, suggested that Illegal Behavior influences conventional beliefs more than conventional beliefs influence Illegal Behavior. The limitations of a purely correlational approach to examining the relationship between conventional belief and Illegal Behavior are detailed, and the reasons for supplementing a correlational approach with a stage-state analysis of the temporal order of changes in the two variables are explained. Using a stage-state analysis in addition to structural equation models reveals aspects of the relationship between conventional beliefs and Illegal Behavior that were not apparent from the structural equations alone. It appears that weakening of conventional beliefs usually takes place before initiation of Illegal Behavior, but once both have occ...
Marc Gertz - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Saving Children, Damning Adults? An Examination of Public Support for Juvenile Rehabilitation and Adult Punishment:
Criminal Justice Review, 2019Co-Authors: Kelly Welch, Leah Fikre Butler, Marc GertzAbstract:Research shows that public preferences about justice system approaches to decreasing Illegal Behavior distinguish between adult and juvenile offending. We also know that fear of crime and perceived...
Jos V. M. Welie - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Dentists in Double Trouble: The (Un)Fairness of Punishing for the Same Mistake Twice
Journal of the American Dental Association (1939), 2008Co-Authors: W.g. Brands, Jos V. M. WelieAbstract:ABSTRACT Background and Overview. Many state dental practice acts allow for the suspension or revocation of a dentist's license on the basis of a previous conviction for Illegal Behavior, even if the Behavior is not related to the practice of dentistry. Penalizing a dentist twice for the same Behavior appears to violate the legal principle “ne bis in idem”—that is, no double penalty for the same socially undesirable Behavior. However, disciplinary measures are not intended primarily to penalize the offender but rather to protect the public and the reputation of the profession. In this article, the authors review various cases in which boards disciplined convicted dentists and propose criteria for discerning between situations in which such “double trouble” is fair and unfair. Conclusions and Practice Implications. The authors conclude that such disciplinary actions are fair only if four criteria concerning the following are fulfilled: the relationship between the dentist's Illegal Behavior and dental treatment or privileges of the dentist; the severity of the crime; the frequency of the Illegal Behavior; and the balance between crime and punishment.
Sco Menard - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a developmental test of mertonian anomie theory
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 1995Co-Authors: Sco MenardAbstract:Merton's theory of anomie and deviant Behavior has not been tested adequately. Oversimplified tests involving the relationship between crime and social class or between crime and the discrepancy between aspirations and expectations ignore both structural and social-psychological aspects of the theory, particularly the pivotal role of the mode of adaptation as an influence on the type and frequency of Illegal Behavior. In the present study, a careful review of Merton's writings on anomie theory is used to construct a more complete and rigorous test of the theory for respondents in early, middle, and late adolescence.
Kimberly Glassman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Role of Participant Motivation in the Outcome of a Prevention/Early Intervention Program for Adolescent Substance Use Problems and Illegal Behavior.
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2003Co-Authors: Alfred S. Friedman, Arlene Terras, Kimberly GlassmanAbstract:ABSTRACT The primary purpose of this study was to determine, for a court-adjudicated adolescent male sample (N = 160) mandated to a residential program setting, the degree to which their expressed motivation for getting help with their alcohol, illicit drug and Illegal Behavior problems was found to predict to the outcome of an early intervention treatment program. Results. Those subjects who had reported relatively more severe alcohol and drug problems at admission expressed a significantly greater degree of being “troubled” by having such problems, and that it was significantly more “important to get help and counseling” for these problems. However, no significant relationship was found between the degree of the Illegal Behavior problems and the degree of being “troubled” by having the problems, or the degree that it was considered important to obtain help for such problems. It is proposed that a possible explanation for this lack of concern regarding having committed serious Illegal Behavior is the lac...
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family structure versus family relationships for predicting to substance use abuse and Illegal Behavior
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2000Co-Authors: Alfred S. Friedman, Arlene Terras, Kimberly GlassmanAbstract:ABSTRACT This is a report on a court-adjudicated, inner-city, low SES, sample of African-American adolescent males (N = 326), to determine the degree to which their family structure (e.g., single parent vs. two-parent families) vs. the nature of the family relationships, predict to the sons' involvement in substance use/abuse and in Illegal Behavior. Some of the family relationship measures, but none of the family structure measures, were found to predict to substance use/abuse, Illegal Behavior and drug trafficking. Of 33 family relationships measures analyzed, three predicted at the .01 level of significance, to the degree of recent substance use/abuse, and two predicted to the recent frequency of drug trafficking. If the subject considered his mother to have an alcohol problem, this was found to be the strongest single predictor to the degree of the son's substance use/abuse, for this sample.
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Family Structure versus Family Relationships for Predicting to Substance Use/Abuse and Illegal Behavior
Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2000Co-Authors: Alfred S. Friedman, Arlene Terras, Kimberly GlassmanAbstract:ABSTRACT This is a report on a court-adjudicated, inner-city, low SES, sample of African-American adolescent males (N = 326), to determine the degree to which their family structure (e.g., single parent vs. two-parent families) vs. the nature of the family relationships, predict to the sons' involvement in substance use/abuse and in Illegal Behavior. Some of the family relationship measures, but none of the family structure measures, were found to predict to substance use/abuse, Illegal Behavior and drug trafficking. Of 33 family relationships measures analyzed, three predicted at the .01 level of significance, to the degree of recent substance use/abuse, and two predicted to the recent frequency of drug trafficking. If the subject considered his mother to have an alcohol problem, this was found to be the strongest single predictor to the degree of the son's substance use/abuse, for this sample.
