Scared or Attached? Unraveling Important Links in Strain–Crime Relationships Among School Students

Drawing on general strain theory of crime, the study employs the survey data from a random sample of 600 school students in Lviv, Ukraine, to examine how sanction risks and social bonds mediate and moderate the relationship between strain and adolescent delinquency. Findings from negative binomial r...

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Published in:International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology 2019-06, Vol.63 (8), p.1175-1201
Main Authors: Kuptsevych-Timmer, Anastasiia, Antonaccio, Olena, Botchkovar, Ekaterina V., Smith, William R.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adolescents
Attachment
Childrearing practices
Conditioning
Crime
Crime - psychology
Criminology
Fear
Fear & phobias
Female
Humans
Interpersonal Relations
Juvenile delinquency
Juvenile Delinquency - statistics & numerical data
Male
Parents
Psychological Theory
Sanctions
Social control
Social Control, Formal
Sociocultural factors
Specification
Strain theory
Stress, Psychological - classification
Students - psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Ukraine
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Summary:Drawing on general strain theory of crime, the study employs the survey data from a random sample of 600 school students in Lviv, Ukraine, to examine how sanction risks and social bonds mediate and moderate the relationship between strain and adolescent delinquency. Findings from negative binomial regressions and the KHB decomposition procedure demonstrate that fear of sanctions and levels of social control mediate the relationships between strain and delinquency to a different degree, depending on the type of strain experienced. Results concerning conditioning effects are mixed, with only parental monitoring found to be a moderator of the strain–delinquency link. However, the direction of the interaction effect is unexpected. Future research needs to improve the specification of strain models and evaluate them in other sociocultural contexts.
ISSN:0306-624X
1552-6933
DOI:10.1177/0306624X18814342