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Examining the Direct and Indirect Effects of Fear and Anger on Criminal Decision Making Among Known Offenders
This study explores the direct and indirect influences of fear and anger on hypothetical drunk driving likelihood, including their impact on cost perceptions. Surveys were administered to 1,013 male and female incarcerated felony offenders in the Southwestern United States. Using a multivariate path model and controlling for a number of other individual factors, current fear related to increased cost perceptions and anger to decreased costs. Anger also maintained a direct influence on drunk driving, whereas fear did not. Despite their shared negative valence, fear and anger appear to have dissimilar influences on cost perc...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - October 27, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Bouffard, J. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Role of Emotion and Reason in Criminal Decision Making
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Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - October 27, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Exum, M. L. Tags: Editorial Source Type: research

Perceptions of the Previously Convicted: The Influence of Conviction Type and Therapy Participation
The present study explores individuals’ desires for social distance from violent versus non-violent offenders and investigates whether disclosure of the offender’s therapy completion influences this desire for distance. The study also investigates relationships between participants’ desires for social distance and their perceptions of therapy effectiveness with offenders. Using a 2 x 2 factorial design, 150 undergraduate participants completed measures of social distance and perceived offender therapy effectiveness. Overall, respondents indicated higher desires for social distance from offenders convicted...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - October 7, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Edwards, E. R., Mottarella, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Effectiveness of the Tupiq Program for Inuit Sex Offenders
This study examines the effectiveness of the Tupiq program, a culturally specific program for Inuit sex offenders that incorporates cognitive behavioural methods with traditional Inuit knowledge and culture led by Inuit healers and facilitators. Outcomes of 61 offenders who participated in the Tupiq program and were released were compared with outcomes of a cohort of 114 released Inuit sex offenders incarcerated during the same time period who had taken alternative sex offender treatment programs, or had not attended any sex offender program. On release, Tupiq participants had significantly lower rates of general reoffendi...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - October 7, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Stewart, L. A., Hamilton, E., Wilton, G., Cousineau, C., Varrette, S. K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Psychometric Properties of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version Among Portuguese Juvenile Delinquents
The main aim of the present study was to examine some psychometric properties of the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) among Portuguese juvenile delinquents. With forensic sample of 192 incarcerated male participants, the Portuguese version of the PCL:YV demonstrated promising psychometric properties of the three-factor model of youth psychopathy, internal consistency, convergent validity, concurrent validity, and retrospective validity that generally justify its use among Portuguese youths. Statistically significant associations were found with age of criminal onset, frequency of crimes, number of victims, and...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - October 7, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Pechorro, P., Barroso, R., Maroco, J., Vieira, R. X., Goncalves, R. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

The Japanese Criminal Thinking Inventory: Development, Reliability, and Initial Validation of a New Scale for Assessing Criminal Thinking in a Japanese Offender Population
Using a sample of 116 Japanese men who had been placed under parole/probationary supervision or released from prison, the present study examined standardization, reliability, and validation of the Japanese Criminal Thinking Inventory (JCTI) that was based on the short form of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles (PICTS), a self-rating instrument designed to evaluate cognitive patterns specific to criminal conduct. An exploratory factor analysis revealed that four dimensions adequately captured the structure of the JCTI, and the resultant 17-item JCTI demonstrated high internal consistency. Compared with ...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - October 7, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Kishi, K., Takeda, F., Nagata, Y., Suzuki, J., Monma, T., Asanuma, T. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Finding Color in Conformity: A Commentary on Culturally Specific Risk Factors for Violence in Australia
This article outlines the current utility of Indigenous culturally specific risk factors for violence and the ramifications for cross-cultural risk prediction. The Indigenous culturally specific violence risk factor literature has provided a rich body of contextual information outlining Indigenous patterns of criminal behaviour. This information has the capacity to facilitate offender responsivity and treatment targets in addition to assisting clinicians identify the presence of risk markers among Indigenous clients. However, if intended for inclusion in risk prediction models, culturally specific risk items then require f...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - October 7, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Shepherd, S. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Profiles of Maternal Parenting Practices: Exploring the Link With Maternal Delinquency, Offending, Mental Health, and Children's Physical Aggression
This study is based on the first wave of the ongoing Vancouver Longitudinal Study; the objective of this prospective study is to identify the early risk and protective factors for aggression and violence from the earliest developmental periods. Parenting practices of 287 mothers with preschoolers are examined using a series of latent class analyses. Three different patterns of parenting emerged: Positive, Negative, and Intermittent. Patterns identified are associated with several key criminogenic, socio-demographic, historical, and developmental factors including current maternal adult offending, mothers’ mental heal...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - October 7, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Tzoumakis, S., Lussier, P., Corrado, R. R. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

From Criminogenic Risk to Rehabilitation: Is There a Need for a Culturally Sensitive Approach?
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Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - October 7, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Stams, G. J. J. M. Tags: Guest Editorial Source Type: research

Weapon Possession Among College Students: A Study From a Midwestern University
Weapon possession on college campuses causes great concern, but there remains a lack of research examining the determinants of this phenomenon. Previous studies addressing weapon possession have primarily focused on either K-12 or the general adult population. Unlike previous studies, this study examined the weapon possession among college students using data collected from a mid-sized university in Missouri, and 451 students participated. Weapon possession and other theoretical factors were measured through the self-administered survey. Logistical regression analysis revealed that weapon socialization was the most signifi...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - September 2, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Jang, H., Kang, J. H., Dierenfeldt, R., Lindsteadt, G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

MEGA--Empirical Support for Nomenclature on the Anomalies: Sexually Violent and Predatory Youth
Applied are empirical findings supporting the authors’ previously presented nomenclature identifying two subsets of sexually abusive youth overlooked by most contemporary risk assessment tools: sexually violent and predatory sexually violent youth. The cross-validation findings on an ecologically framed risk assessment tool, MEGA (Multiplex Empirically Guided Inventory of Ecological Aggregates for Assessing Sexually Abusive Children and Adolescents [Ages 19 and Under]) (N = 1,056 male and female sexually abusive youth, ages 4-19, including youth with low intellectual functioning), from the United States, ...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - September 2, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Miccio-Fonseca, L. C., Rasmussen, L. A. L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

An Examination of Escalation in Burglaries Committed by Sexual Offenders
Research in the field of sexual aggression often assumes escalation in the criminal careers of sexual offenders. Sexual offenders are thought to begin their criminal careers with non-contact sexual offenses or non-sexual offenses and then escalate to more serious crimes, specifically sexual violence. The commission of one crime in particular—burglary—has been found to be a predictor of future violence in sexual offenders. The present study investigated the nature and extent of escalation in the criminal histories of 161 sex offenders who committed at least two burglaries. Six types of escalations were considere...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - September 2, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Pedneault, A., Harris, D. A., Knight, R. A. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

"I Don't See Myself as Prison Material": Motivations for Entering a Rural Drug Court
Since the inception of drug court in the late 1980s, it has become a widely used alternative to incarcerating drug offenders. Previous research has detailed the effectiveness of programming on recidivism, participants’ perceptions of the service delivery model, and cost-effectiveness. The scholarship related to drug offender motivations to participate in drug court has largely discussed family obligations and the sense of loss stemming from drug abuse, and only two studies have discussed the fear of prison as a primary motivator. This research utilized semi-structured interviews with former drug court participants fr...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - September 2, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Patten, R., Messer, S., Candela, K. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Illicit Drug Use Among South Korean Offenders: Assessing the Generality of Social Learning Theory
Since the mid-1990s, illicit drug use has become a problem in Korean society. This trend is likely due to the rapid globalization and expansion that occurred with the Internet revolution, which led to greater numbers of people socially learning about drug culture. The current study attempts to uncover criminogenic causality of such social learning about drug use by studying adult felony drug offenders in South Korea. The data used for the study were obtained from self-reported surveys, originally collected by the Korean Institution of Criminology (KIC). The final sample comprised 1,452 felony offenders convicted of illicit...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - September 2, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Yun, M., Kim, E. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Analysis of Risk and Protective Factors for Recidivism in Spanish Youth Offenders
Although a large body of research has studied the factors associated to general recidivism, predictive validity of these factors has received less attention. Andrews and Bonta’s General Personality and Social-Psychological Model attempts to provide an in-depth explanation of risk and protective factors in relation to youth recidivism. The Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory was administered to 210 adolescents aged between 14 and 18 with a criminal record to analyse risk and protective factors in relation to youth recidivism. Their possible differential contribution over a 2-year follow-up period was also...
Source: International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology - September 2, 2015 Category: Criminology Authors: Cuervo, K., Villanueva, L. Tags: Articles Source Type: research