TY - JOUR
T1 - Role-taking and recidivism
T2 - A test of differential social control theory
AU - Ngo, Fawn T.
AU - Paternoster, Raymond
AU - Curran, James
AU - Mackenzie, Doris Layton
N1 - Funding Information:
This paper was supported in part by 2003-DB-BX-0004, awarded by the US Department of Justice. The Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, coordinates the activities of the program offices and bureaus. Points of view or opinions contained within this document are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the US Department of Justice. Funding was provided by the State of Maryland, Governor’s Office of Crime Control and Prevention, BYRN-2002–1286, to the University of Maryland. The authors would like to thank the journal editor and anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments.
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - To assess the generality of differential social control (DSC) theory, this study examines whether the core propositions of DSC could explain recidivism among a sample of adult offenders. Overall, the results do not lend support for DSC's ability to account for offenders' persistence in crime. Specifically, the results reveal that only two of the five measures of role-taking, antisocial attitudes and number of prior arrests, are consistent significant predictors of recidivism. The results also indicate that measures of role-commitment are not generally related to recidivism and as a consequence, the hypothesized mediating effects of role-taking on the relationship between role-commitment and recidivism by DSC are not supported. The results also show that with the exception of age, social location measures generally are not related to recidivism and thus, definite statements on the mediating effects of DSC's central concepts on this relationship could not be drawn.
AB - To assess the generality of differential social control (DSC) theory, this study examines whether the core propositions of DSC could explain recidivism among a sample of adult offenders. Overall, the results do not lend support for DSC's ability to account for offenders' persistence in crime. Specifically, the results reveal that only two of the five measures of role-taking, antisocial attitudes and number of prior arrests, are consistent significant predictors of recidivism. The results also indicate that measures of role-commitment are not generally related to recidivism and as a consequence, the hypothesized mediating effects of role-taking on the relationship between role-commitment and recidivism by DSC are not supported. The results also show that with the exception of age, social location measures generally are not related to recidivism and thus, definite statements on the mediating effects of DSC's central concepts on this relationship could not be drawn.
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U2 - 10.1080/07418825.2010.528013
DO - 10.1080/07418825.2010.528013
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:80051879091
SN - 0741-8825
VL - 28
SP - 667
EP - 697
JO - Justice Quarterly
JF - Justice Quarterly
IS - 5
ER -
