Stephen A Cernkovich
Biographic Data
| ID | 170085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen A Cernkovich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen A |
| FAMILY NAME | Cernkovich |
| SIGNATURE | CERNKOVICH S A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bowling Green State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1016 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Adult child-parent bonds and life course criminality
Parenting and Adult Criminality: An Examination of Direct and Indirect Effects by Race
Parenting practices are among the strongest predictors of juvenile delinquency identified in the criminological literature and have been intimately connected to adult offending.The prior research connecting early parenting experiences with crime, however, has not systematically assessed the long-term effect of parenting style on adult criminal offending, or the processes linking the parenting and crime, by race. In this study, we explore the exte…
Drug Use and Desistance Processes
Sampson and Laub's age‐graded theory of informal social control emphasizes the importance of adult social bonds such as marriage and stable employment in redirecting behavior in a more prosocial direction. Heavy alcohol use has also been shown to influence persistent patterns of offending as well as more episodic offending across the life course. Sampson and Laub's life‐course theory emphasizes the negative impact of alcohol use on marital and em…
Delinquent Behavior, Official Delinquency, and Gender: Consequences for Adulthood Functioning and Well‐being
The general aim of this article is to evaluate the consequences of both delinquent behavior and institutionalization as a juvenile delinquent on the quality of adult functioning and well‐being, with a specific focus on gender differences. Data were gathered from two related data sources: a sample of previously institutionalized offenders ( n = 210 ) and a sample of individuals living in private households ( n = 721 ). Males and females in both sa…
Emotions and Crime over the Life Course: A Neo-Meadian Perspective on Criminal Continuity and Change
A symbolic interactionist perspective on the emotions is presented that highlights their social character, forges links to cognitive processes, and suggests ways in which emotions influence long‐term patterns of criminal involvement. This neo‐Meadian perspective contrasts with theories of desistance that focus on the role of informal social controls and develops the view of an emotional self that flourishes somewhat independent of the major role …
Les types de délinquantes: Une Étude Longitudinale Des Causes Et Des Conséquences1
L’existence de différences sexuelles sur le plan du comportement antisocial est un fait largement répandu et accepté en criminologie, et ce, depuis la naissance de cette discipline. Bien que depuis une trentaine d’années les chercheurs se soient intéressés plus que jamais à la recherche théorique et empirique du comportement antisocial des femmes, force est de constater que les criminologues n’ont pas encore pleinement exploré la diversité des ty…
Changes in Friendship Relations Over the Life Course: Implications for Desistance From Crime
We analyze life history narratives and structured data derived from a study of serious female and male offenders interviewed when incarcerated as adolescents and followed up thirteen years later. We highlight shifts in the influence of friends and in the nature of friendship choices, and suggest how these changes can facilitate desistance processes. While key events (e.g., marriage) are important to an understanding of such changes, shifts in the…
Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation
his article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long-term follow-up of a sample of serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males. Neither marital attachment nor job stability, factors frequently associated with male desistance from crime, were strongly related to female or male desistance. A symbolic-interactionist perspective on desistance is developed as a counterpoint to Sampson and Laub's theory of informal soci…
Stability and Change in Antisocial Behavior: The Transition From Adolescence to Early Adulthood
This longitudinal research, based on two samples of respondents who were differentially involved in delinquency as teenagers, identifies latent trait and life‐course correlates of the persistence of antisocial behavior into young adulthood. The data show that prior delinquency is a stable predictor among respondents in both our household and institutional samples. However, although social bonding has a substantial impact on continued criminality …
Harsh Physical Discipline in Childhood and Violence in Later Romantic Involvements: The Mediating Role of Problem Behaviors
This study examines the impact that experiencing harsh physical discipline in childhood and engaging in problem behaviors during adolescence and young adulthood have on experiencing and perpetrating intimate violence. Using LISREL 7, we tested a model based on social learning theory, Freudian theory, and theories of deviance. The 608 cases analyzed are from a longitudinal study of adolescents conducted in 1982 and 1992-1993. The results suggest t…
Delinquency, Identity, and Women's Involvement in Relationship Violence
This study focuses on factors associated with women's self‐reports of relationship violence “perpetration.” We analyzed data derived from personal interviews with 942 respondents who were originally contacted when they were adolescents and then 10 years later as young adults (N=721). Level of delinquency in adolescence was a signicant predictor of adult reports of involvement in relationship violence, for both male and female respondents. In addi…
The Quality of Adolescent Friendships: Long Term Effects
While differing in etiological emphasis, a variety of theoretical perspectives seem to coalesce around the notion that youthful friendships are "good" for development. Sociometric studies have documented that low status youth are at risk for a variety of negative outcomes, but there has been little longitudinal research focused on the qualities of youths' relations with peers. We conducted interviews focusing on adolescents' relations with their …
Assessing the effects of race and class on juvenile justice processing in Ohio
Attitudes toward Childbearing among Young Parents
H. Theodore Groat, Peggy C. Giordano, Stephen A. Cernkovich, M. D. Pugh, Steven P. Swinford, Attitudes toward Childbearing among Young Parents, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Aug., 1997), pp. 568-581
The Family and Peer Relations of Black Adolescents
Analyse comparative des relations familiales des adolescents americains de race blanche et de race noire. Consequences de ces types de relations familiales et sociales sur le developpement psychologique de l'adolescent et sur son avenir (problemes de la jeunesse, notamment la delinquance)
School Bonding, Race, and Delinquency
While there is considerable evidence that blacks experience school in qualitatively distinct ways from whites, there has been a general failure to examine racial variation in the impact of school variables on juvenile misconduct. The purpose of this research is to describe the manner in which school bonding affects delinquent conduct, focusing in particular on the role of the school in the delinquent involvement of black youths. Our orientation i…
Family Relationships and Delinquency
Family interaction and attachment assume prominent roles in social control theories of delinquency. However, the degree of conceptualization and the measurement strategies generally employed arguably are inadequate to capture the real dynamic quality of such relationships and to specify their effects on delinquency involvement. The purpose of this research is to distinguish more precisely those family interaction mechanisms which are associated w…
Friendships and Delinquency
Major delinquency theories differ significantly in the ways in which they have portrayed the friendship patterns of male and, more recently, female delinquents. Psychological studies and control theory have depicted delinquents' peer relationships as inadequate or exploitive and cold, whereas subcultural theories generally emphasize the intimacy and solidarity of the delinquent gang. In spite of its pivotal theoretical role, few studies have actu…
On Complicating the Relationship between Liberation and Delinquency
The popular notion that the women's movement is responsible for an increase in female crime oversimplifies the concept of liberation. Distinctions are made between women's traditionality or nontraditionality in various roles—societal, familial or interpersonal, and within the realm of the criminal act itself. Data derived from a questionnaire administered in three urban high schools and two state institutions for girls suggest that there is littl…
A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Delinquency
The historically dominant and generally accepted view is that males are much more likely than females to commit delinquent acts, and that when females deviate their misconduct is significantly less serious than that of males. This paper examines the recent contention that the delinquent behavior of males and females is more similar than assumed. Self-report questionnaires were administered in 1977 to a sample of 822 male and female adolescents se…
The Children of Ishmael: Critical Perspectives on Juvenile Justice
Evaluating Two Models of Delinquency Causation Structural Theory and Control Theory
Research on delinquency involvement has often employed structural or control theories to account for such behavior. Structural models typically have been applied to lower‐class delinquency, control models to explanotions of middle‐class juvenile miscanduct. Much of the inconclusiveness and many of the controdictions in the delinquency literature are arguably the result of this focus on either lower‐class or middle‐class adolescents employing a si…
Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation
his article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long-term follow-up of a sample of serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males. Neither marital attachment nor job stability, factors frequently associated with male desistance from crime, were strongly related to female or male desistance. A symbolic-interactionist perspective on desistance is developed as a counterpoint to Sampson and Laub's theory of informal soci…
Family Relationships and Delinquency
Family interaction and attachment assume prominent roles in social control theories of delinquency. However, the degree of conceptualization and the measurement strategies generally employed arguably are inadequate to capture the real dynamic quality of such relationships and to specify their effects on delinquency involvement. The purpose of this research is to distinguish more precisely those family interaction mechanisms which are associated w…
School Bonding, Race, and Delinquency
While there is considerable evidence that blacks experience school in qualitatively distinct ways from whites, there has been a general failure to examine racial variation in the impact of school variables on juvenile misconduct. The purpose of this research is to describe the manner in which school bonding affects delinquent conduct, focusing in particular on the role of the school in the delinquent involvement of black youths. Our orientation i…
Friendships and Delinquency
Major delinquency theories differ significantly in the ways in which they have portrayed the friendship patterns of male and, more recently, female delinquents. Psychological studies and control theory have depicted delinquents' peer relationships as inadequate or exploitive and cold, whereas subcultural theories generally emphasize the intimacy and solidarity of the delinquent gang. In spite of its pivotal theoretical role, few studies have actu…
Emotions and Crime over the Life Course: A Neo-Meadian Perspective on Criminal Continuity and Change
A symbolic interactionist perspective on the emotions is presented that highlights their social character, forges links to cognitive processes, and suggests ways in which emotions influence long‐term patterns of criminal involvement. This neo‐Meadian perspective contrasts with theories of desistance that focus on the role of informal social controls and develops the view of an emotional self that flourishes somewhat independent of the major role …
Changes in Friendship Relations Over the Life Course: Implications for Desistance From Crime
We analyze life history narratives and structured data derived from a study of serious female and male offenders interviewed when incarcerated as adolescents and followed up thirteen years later. We highlight shifts in the influence of friends and in the nature of friendship choices, and suggest how these changes can facilitate desistance processes. While key events (e.g., marriage) are important to an understanding of such changes, shifts in the…
On Complicating the Relationship between Liberation and Delinquency
The popular notion that the women's movement is responsible for an increase in female crime oversimplifies the concept of liberation. Distinctions are made between women's traditionality or nontraditionality in various roles—societal, familial or interpersonal, and within the realm of the criminal act itself. Data derived from a questionnaire administered in three urban high schools and two state institutions for girls suggest that there is littl…
Drug Use and Desistance Processes
Sampson and Laub's age‐graded theory of informal social control emphasizes the importance of adult social bonds such as marriage and stable employment in redirecting behavior in a more prosocial direction. Heavy alcohol use has also been shown to influence persistent patterns of offending as well as more episodic offending across the life course. Sampson and Laub's life‐course theory emphasizes the negative impact of alcohol use on marital and em…
The Family and Peer Relations of Black Adolescents
Analyse comparative des relations familiales des adolescents americains de race blanche et de race noire. Consequences de ces types de relations familiales et sociales sur le developpement psychologique de l'adolescent et sur son avenir (problemes de la jeunesse, notamment la delinquance)
A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Delinquency
The historically dominant and generally accepted view is that males are much more likely than females to commit delinquent acts, and that when females deviate their misconduct is significantly less serious than that of males. This paper examines the recent contention that the delinquent behavior of males and females is more similar than assumed. Self-report questionnaires were administered in 1977 to a sample of 822 male and female adolescents se…
Delinquent Behavior, Official Delinquency, and Gender: Consequences for Adulthood Functioning and Well‐being
The general aim of this article is to evaluate the consequences of both delinquent behavior and institutionalization as a juvenile delinquent on the quality of adult functioning and well‐being, with a specific focus on gender differences. Data were gathered from two related data sources: a sample of previously institutionalized offenders ( n = 210 ) and a sample of individuals living in private households ( n = 721 ). Males and females in both sa…
Stability and Change in Antisocial Behavior: The Transition From Adolescence to Early Adulthood
This longitudinal research, based on two samples of respondents who were differentially involved in delinquency as teenagers, identifies latent trait and life‐course correlates of the persistence of antisocial behavior into young adulthood. The data show that prior delinquency is a stable predictor among respondents in both our household and institutional samples. However, although social bonding has a substantial impact on continued criminality …
Evaluating Two Models of Delinquency Causation Structural Theory and Control Theory
Research on delinquency involvement has often employed structural or control theories to account for such behavior. Structural models typically have been applied to lower‐class delinquency, control models to explanotions of middle‐class juvenile miscanduct. Much of the inconclusiveness and many of the controdictions in the delinquency literature are arguably the result of this focus on either lower‐class or middle‐class adolescents employing a si…
Delinquency, Identity, and Women's Involvement in Relationship Violence
This study focuses on factors associated with women's self‐reports of relationship violence “perpetration.” We analyzed data derived from personal interviews with 942 respondents who were originally contacted when they were adolescents and then 10 years later as young adults (N=721). Level of delinquency in adolescence was a signicant predictor of adult reports of involvement in relationship violence, for both male and female respondents. In addi…
Harsh Physical Discipline in Childhood and Violence in Later Romantic Involvements: The Mediating Role of Problem Behaviors
This study examines the impact that experiencing harsh physical discipline in childhood and engaging in problem behaviors during adolescence and young adulthood have on experiencing and perpetrating intimate violence. Using LISREL 7, we tested a model based on social learning theory, Freudian theory, and theories of deviance. The 608 cases analyzed are from a longitudinal study of adolescents conducted in 1982 and 1992-1993. The results suggest t…
Adult child-parent bonds and life course criminality
Assessing the effects of race and class on juvenile justice processing in Ohio
The Quality of Adolescent Friendships: Long Term Effects
While differing in etiological emphasis, a variety of theoretical perspectives seem to coalesce around the notion that youthful friendships are "good" for development. Sociometric studies have documented that low status youth are at risk for a variety of negative outcomes, but there has been little longitudinal research focused on the qualities of youths' relations with peers. We conducted interviews focusing on adolescents' relations with their …
Parenting and Adult Criminality: An Examination of Direct and Indirect Effects by Race
Parenting practices are among the strongest predictors of juvenile delinquency identified in the criminological literature and have been intimately connected to adult offending.The prior research connecting early parenting experiences with crime, however, has not systematically assessed the long-term effect of parenting style on adult criminal offending, or the processes linking the parenting and crime, by race. In this study, we explore the exte…
Les types de délinquantes: Une Étude Longitudinale Des Causes Et Des Conséquences1
L’existence de différences sexuelles sur le plan du comportement antisocial est un fait largement répandu et accepté en criminologie, et ce, depuis la naissance de cette discipline. Bien que depuis une trentaine d’années les chercheurs se soient intéressés plus que jamais à la recherche théorique et empirique du comportement antisocial des femmes, force est de constater que les criminologues n’ont pas encore pleinement exploré la diversité des ty…
Attitudes toward Childbearing among Young Parents
H. Theodore Groat, Peggy C. Giordano, Stephen A. Cernkovich, M. D. Pugh, Steven P. Swinford, Attitudes toward Childbearing among Young Parents, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Aug., 1997), pp. 568-581
The Children of Ishmael: Critical Perspectives on Juvenile Justice
Evaluating Two Models of Delinquency Causation Structural Theory and Control Theory
Research on delinquency involvement has often employed structural or control theories to account for such behavior. Structural models typically have been applied to lower‐class delinquency, control models to explanotions of middle‐class juvenile miscanduct. Much of the inconclusiveness and many of the controdictions in the delinquency literature are arguably the result of this focus on either lower‐class or middle‐class adolescents employing a si…
On Complicating the Relationship between Liberation and Delinquency
The popular notion that the women's movement is responsible for an increase in female crime oversimplifies the concept of liberation. Distinctions are made between women's traditionality or nontraditionality in various roles—societal, familial or interpersonal, and within the realm of the criminal act itself. Data derived from a questionnaire administered in three urban high schools and two state institutions for girls suggest that there is littl…
A Comparative Analysis of Male and Female Delinquency
The historically dominant and generally accepted view is that males are much more likely than females to commit delinquent acts, and that when females deviate their misconduct is significantly less serious than that of males. This paper examines the recent contention that the delinquent behavior of males and females is more similar than assumed. Self-report questionnaires were administered in 1977 to a sample of 822 male and female adolescents se…
Friendships and Delinquency
Major delinquency theories differ significantly in the ways in which they have portrayed the friendship patterns of male and, more recently, female delinquents. Psychological studies and control theory have depicted delinquents' peer relationships as inadequate or exploitive and cold, whereas subcultural theories generally emphasize the intimacy and solidarity of the delinquent gang. In spite of its pivotal theoretical role, few studies have actu…
Family Relationships and Delinquency
Family interaction and attachment assume prominent roles in social control theories of delinquency. However, the degree of conceptualization and the measurement strategies generally employed arguably are inadequate to capture the real dynamic quality of such relationships and to specify their effects on delinquency involvement. The purpose of this research is to distinguish more precisely those family interaction mechanisms which are associated w…
School Bonding, Race, and Delinquency
While there is considerable evidence that blacks experience school in qualitatively distinct ways from whites, there has been a general failure to examine racial variation in the impact of school variables on juvenile misconduct. The purpose of this research is to describe the manner in which school bonding affects delinquent conduct, focusing in particular on the role of the school in the delinquent involvement of black youths. Our orientation i…
The Family and Peer Relations of Black Adolescents
Analyse comparative des relations familiales des adolescents americains de race blanche et de race noire. Consequences de ces types de relations familiales et sociales sur le developpement psychologique de l'adolescent et sur son avenir (problemes de la jeunesse, notamment la delinquance)
Assessing the effects of race and class on juvenile justice processing in Ohio
Attitudes toward Childbearing among Young Parents
H. Theodore Groat, Peggy C. Giordano, Stephen A. Cernkovich, M. D. Pugh, Steven P. Swinford, Attitudes toward Childbearing among Young Parents, Journal of Marriage and Family, Vol. 59, No. 3 (Aug., 1997), pp. 568-581
The Quality of Adolescent Friendships: Long Term Effects
While differing in etiological emphasis, a variety of theoretical perspectives seem to coalesce around the notion that youthful friendships are "good" for development. Sociometric studies have documented that low status youth are at risk for a variety of negative outcomes, but there has been little longitudinal research focused on the qualities of youths' relations with peers. We conducted interviews focusing on adolescents' relations with their …
Delinquency, Identity, and Women's Involvement in Relationship Violence
This study focuses on factors associated with women's self‐reports of relationship violence “perpetration.” We analyzed data derived from personal interviews with 942 respondents who were originally contacted when they were adolescents and then 10 years later as young adults (N=721). Level of delinquency in adolescence was a signicant predictor of adult reports of involvement in relationship violence, for both male and female respondents. In addi…
Harsh Physical Discipline in Childhood and Violence in Later Romantic Involvements: The Mediating Role of Problem Behaviors
This study examines the impact that experiencing harsh physical discipline in childhood and engaging in problem behaviors during adolescence and young adulthood have on experiencing and perpetrating intimate violence. Using LISREL 7, we tested a model based on social learning theory, Freudian theory, and theories of deviance. The 608 cases analyzed are from a longitudinal study of adolescents conducted in 1982 and 1992-1993. The results suggest t…
Stability and Change in Antisocial Behavior: The Transition From Adolescence to Early Adulthood
This longitudinal research, based on two samples of respondents who were differentially involved in delinquency as teenagers, identifies latent trait and life‐course correlates of the persistence of antisocial behavior into young adulthood. The data show that prior delinquency is a stable predictor among respondents in both our household and institutional samples. However, although social bonding has a substantial impact on continued criminality …
Gender, Crime, and Desistance: Toward a Theory of Cognitive Transformation
his article analyzes data derived from the first detailed long-term follow-up of a sample of serious adolescent female delinquents and similarly situated males. Neither marital attachment nor job stability, factors frequently associated with male desistance from crime, were strongly related to female or male desistance. A symbolic-interactionist perspective on desistance is developed as a counterpoint to Sampson and Laub's theory of informal soci…
Changes in Friendship Relations Over the Life Course: Implications for Desistance From Crime
We analyze life history narratives and structured data derived from a study of serious female and male offenders interviewed when incarcerated as adolescents and followed up thirteen years later. We highlight shifts in the influence of friends and in the nature of friendship choices, and suggest how these changes can facilitate desistance processes. While key events (e.g., marriage) are important to an understanding of such changes, shifts in the…
Les types de délinquantes: Une Étude Longitudinale Des Causes Et Des Conséquences1
L’existence de différences sexuelles sur le plan du comportement antisocial est un fait largement répandu et accepté en criminologie, et ce, depuis la naissance de cette discipline. Bien que depuis une trentaine d’années les chercheurs se soient intéressés plus que jamais à la recherche théorique et empirique du comportement antisocial des femmes, force est de constater que les criminologues n’ont pas encore pleinement exploré la diversité des ty…
Drug Use and Desistance Processes
Sampson and Laub's age‐graded theory of informal social control emphasizes the importance of adult social bonds such as marriage and stable employment in redirecting behavior in a more prosocial direction. Heavy alcohol use has also been shown to influence persistent patterns of offending as well as more episodic offending across the life course. Sampson and Laub's life‐course theory emphasizes the negative impact of alcohol use on marital and em…
Delinquent Behavior, Official Delinquency, and Gender: Consequences for Adulthood Functioning and Well‐being
The general aim of this article is to evaluate the consequences of both delinquent behavior and institutionalization as a juvenile delinquent on the quality of adult functioning and well‐being, with a specific focus on gender differences. Data were gathered from two related data sources: a sample of previously institutionalized offenders ( n = 210 ) and a sample of individuals living in private households ( n = 721 ). Males and females in both sa…
Emotions and Crime over the Life Course: A Neo-Meadian Perspective on Criminal Continuity and Change
A symbolic interactionist perspective on the emotions is presented that highlights their social character, forges links to cognitive processes, and suggests ways in which emotions influence long‐term patterns of criminal involvement. This neo‐Meadian perspective contrasts with theories of desistance that focus on the role of informal social controls and develops the view of an emotional self that flourishes somewhat independent of the major role …
Parenting and Adult Criminality: An Examination of Direct and Indirect Effects by Race
Parenting practices are among the strongest predictors of juvenile delinquency identified in the criminological literature and have been intimately connected to adult offending.The prior research connecting early parenting experiences with crime, however, has not systematically assessed the long-term effect of parenting style on adult criminal offending, or the processes linking the parenting and crime, by race. In this study, we explore the exte…
Adult child-parent bonds and life course criminality
Psychology (21 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (18 works) · Developmental psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Juvenile delinquency (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (10 works) · Criminology (9 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (7 works)