Stephen W Baron
Biographic Data
| ID | 3926095 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen W Baron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen W |
| FAMILY NAME | Baron |
| SIGNATURE | BARON S W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 276 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Street Youth, Violence, and Hirschi's Redefinition of Self-Control
The research examines Hirschi's redefinition of self-control and its link to violence. Utilizing a sample of 287 homeless street youth the paper explores the criminogenic impacts of three different operationalizations of self-control. It investigates the direct effects of bonding self-control, attitudinal self-control, and decisional self-control on violence and assesses the indirect relationships that bonding self-control and attitudinal self-co…
Childhood Trauma, Criminogenic Social Schemas, and Violent Crime
Utilizing a sample of 400 homeless street youth, the study draws on the social schematic theory of crime to examine if childhood trauma (physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, and sexual abuse) is linked to the development of a criminogenic knowledge structure (CKS) that mediates its relationship with violence. Results indicate childhood trauma is directly associated with the CKS. They also show that it is indirectly related through…
Crime and the American Dream
Criminologists explain that the pursuit of the American Dream and the extreme emphasis placed on monetary success in American society lead to high rates of serious crime. It is argued that because American society stresses economic achievement to a much greater extent than the use of legitimate methods to reach these economic goals, there is a higher use of illegal and more efficient means, including violence, to achieve economic success. Other i…
Morality, Self-Control, Deterrence, and Drug Use: Street Youths and Situational Action Theory
Utilizing a sample of homeless street youth, the authors apply Wikström’s situational action theory (SAT) to explaining drug use. The article examines the assertion that morality is the most important factor in explaining crime and that self-control and deterrence are key factors in understanding criminal behavior only at moderate levels of morality. Results reveal that morality has a strong effect on hard but not soft drug use, whereas the impac…
Street Youths′ Fear of Violent Crime
Utilizing a sample of 300 street youths the article examines the roles, perceptions of control, depression, prior victimization, criminal behavior, peer crime and victimization, homelessness, and violent subcultural values play in the perception of violent victimization risk and the fear of violent crime. Results suggest that previous victimization and peers’ victimization along with depression and an external locus of control increases perceptio…
Street youths’ control imbalance and soft and hard drug use
Street youths' violent responses to violent personal, vicarious, and anticipated strain
Differential Coercion, Street Youth, and Violent Crime
Using a sample of 300 homeless street youths, this study examines differential coercion theory and the role that coercion and the socialpsychological deficits of anger, low self‐control, coercive modeling, coercive ideation, and control imbalances play in the generation of violent crime. Results from cross‐sectional and prospective offending models that examine the individual mediators reveal that coercion has a direct relationship with violent o…
Self-control, risky lifestyles, and situation: The role of opportunity and context in the general theory
Street Youth, Gender, Financial Strain, and Crime: Exploring Broidy and Agnew's Extension to General Strain Theory
General strain theory posits that adversive circumstances experienced by youths increase the likelihood of criminal behavior. Broidy and Agnew argue that while the underlying process identified in the general strain model will be applicable to both male and female crime different models of strain may be required to highlight gender differences in the underlying process. Utilizing a "high risk" sample of 400 homeless street youths the study examin…
Street youth, strain theory, and crime
General Strain, Street Youth and Crime: A Test of Agnew's Revised Theory
Using a sample of homeless street youth, this research examines how specific forms of strain–emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, homelessness and being a victim of robbery, violence or theft, relative deprivation, monetary dissatisfaction and unemployment–lead to crime and drug use. It also explores how strain is conditioned by deviant peers, deviant attitudes, external attributions, self‐esteem and self‐efficacy. The results reveal th…
Self-Control, Social Consequences, and Criminal Behavior: Street Youth and the General Theory of Crime
Using a sample of 400 homeless street youth, this article examines the role that self-control plays in the generation of crime and drug use as well as its link to negative social consequences. It also explores if these social consequences are themselves related to crime as predicted in strain and differential association theory, or if their impact is eliminated by the presence of low self-control. The results reveal that low self-control predicts…
Street Youth Violence And Victimization
The article reviews the literature surrounding street youth violence and victimization. It examines the role backgrounds of physical and sexual victimization play in street youth[#x2019]s taking to the street and their link to violent behaviors once there. It reveals that violent home experiences educate street youth to use force to settle disputes and provide cultural rules that support violence. On the street, these rules are broadened and rein…
Street youth and labor market strain
Street Youths and Substance Use: The Role of Background, Street Lifestyle, and Economic Factors
This research examines the role that various background, labor market, and street lifestyle factors play in street youths' drug and alcohol use. Using a sample of 200 homeless male street youths, the researcher found that exposure to parental substance abuse increases street youths' risk of alcohol and hard-drug use. Further, histories of physical abuse are related to the use of psychedelic drugs. The data also indicate that long-term homelessnes…
Street Youth and Criminal Violence
This research examines the roles of various subcultural, economic, and victimization factors in the violent behavior of 200 homeless male street youths. Findings reveal that factors associated with the street subculture, including long-term homelessness and criminal peers, increase the respondent's risk for violence on the street and provide rules concerning honor, protection, and retribution. However, the heavy use of drugs and alcohol on the st…
Attributions, Affect, and Crime: Street Youths' Reactions to Unemployment
This research examines the role familial, school, labor market, and street factors play in the criminality of 200 homeless male street youths. Of particular interest is the way these youths interpret their labor market experiences and how together these experiences and interpretations influence criminal behavior. Findings reveal that familial and school factors have minimal influence on current criminal behavior. Instead, criminal behavior is inf…
The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll
Network structure and delinquent attitudes within a juvenile gang
The Canadian West Coast Punk Subculture: A Field Study
This field study of the punk rock subculture is an exploratory examination in the much neglected area of Canadian adolescent subcultures. The data consist of transcribed unstructured interviews with subculture members and field notes gathered during the observation period. Functionalist and neo-Marxist theories of subculture were used as guides to inquiry. The results reveal that the punk subculture is a classless form of delinquent youth culture…
Resistance and its Consequences: The Street Culture of Punks
General Strain, Street Youth and Crime: A Test of Agnew's Revised Theory
Using a sample of homeless street youth, this research examines how specific forms of strain–emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, homelessness and being a victim of robbery, violence or theft, relative deprivation, monetary dissatisfaction and unemployment–lead to crime and drug use. It also explores how strain is conditioned by deviant peers, deviant attitudes, external attributions, self‐esteem and self‐efficacy. The results reveal th…
Attributions, Affect, and Crime: Street Youths' Reactions to Unemployment
This research examines the role familial, school, labor market, and street factors play in the criminality of 200 homeless male street youths. Of particular interest is the way these youths interpret their labor market experiences and how together these experiences and interpretations influence criminal behavior. Findings reveal that familial and school factors have minimal influence on current criminal behavior. Instead, criminal behavior is inf…
Street Youth, Gender, Financial Strain, and Crime: Exploring Broidy and Agnew's Extension to General Strain Theory
General strain theory posits that adversive circumstances experienced by youths increase the likelihood of criminal behavior. Broidy and Agnew argue that while the underlying process identified in the general strain model will be applicable to both male and female crime different models of strain may be required to highlight gender differences in the underlying process. Utilizing a "high risk" sample of 400 homeless street youths the study examin…
Street Youths and Substance Use: The Role of Background, Street Lifestyle, and Economic Factors
This research examines the role that various background, labor market, and street lifestyle factors play in street youths' drug and alcohol use. Using a sample of 200 homeless male street youths, the researcher found that exposure to parental substance abuse increases street youths' risk of alcohol and hard-drug use. Further, histories of physical abuse are related to the use of psychedelic drugs. The data also indicate that long-term homelessnes…
Differential Coercion, Street Youth, and Violent Crime
Using a sample of 300 homeless street youths, this study examines differential coercion theory and the role that coercion and the socialpsychological deficits of anger, low self‐control, coercive modeling, coercive ideation, and control imbalances play in the generation of violent crime. Results from cross‐sectional and prospective offending models that examine the individual mediators reveal that coercion has a direct relationship with violent o…
Self-control, risky lifestyles, and situation: The role of opportunity and context in the general theory
Street youth, strain theory, and crime
Street youths' violent responses to violent personal, vicarious, and anticipated strain
Street youth and labor market strain
Street Youths′ Fear of Violent Crime
Utilizing a sample of 300 street youths the article examines the roles, perceptions of control, depression, prior victimization, criminal behavior, peer crime and victimization, homelessness, and violent subcultural values play in the perception of violent victimization risk and the fear of violent crime. Results suggest that previous victimization and peers’ victimization along with depression and an external locus of control increases perceptio…
The Canadian West Coast Punk Subculture: A Field Study
This field study of the punk rock subculture is an exploratory examination in the much neglected area of Canadian adolescent subcultures. The data consist of transcribed unstructured interviews with subculture members and field notes gathered during the observation period. Functionalist and neo-Marxist theories of subculture were used as guides to inquiry. The results reveal that the punk subculture is a classless form of delinquent youth culture…
Childhood Trauma, Criminogenic Social Schemas, and Violent Crime
Utilizing a sample of 400 homeless street youth, the study draws on the social schematic theory of crime to examine if childhood trauma (physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, and sexual abuse) is linked to the development of a criminogenic knowledge structure (CKS) that mediates its relationship with violence. Results indicate childhood trauma is directly associated with the CKS. They also show that it is indirectly related through…
The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll
Resistance and its Consequences: The Street Culture of Punks
Street youths’ control imbalance and soft and hard drug use
The Canadian West Coast Punk Subculture: A Field Study
This field study of the punk rock subculture is an exploratory examination in the much neglected area of Canadian adolescent subcultures. The data consist of transcribed unstructured interviews with subculture members and field notes gathered during the observation period. Functionalist and neo-Marxist theories of subculture were used as guides to inquiry. The results reveal that the punk subculture is a classless form of delinquent youth culture…
Resistance and its Consequences: The Street Culture of Punks
Network structure and delinquent attitudes within a juvenile gang
The Sex Revolts: Gender, Rebellion and Rock 'n' Roll
Attributions, Affect, and Crime: Street Youths' Reactions to Unemployment
This research examines the role familial, school, labor market, and street factors play in the criminality of 200 homeless male street youths. Of particular interest is the way these youths interpret their labor market experiences and how together these experiences and interpretations influence criminal behavior. Findings reveal that familial and school factors have minimal influence on current criminal behavior. Instead, criminal behavior is inf…
Street Youth and Criminal Violence
This research examines the roles of various subcultural, economic, and victimization factors in the violent behavior of 200 homeless male street youths. Findings reveal that factors associated with the street subculture, including long-term homelessness and criminal peers, increase the respondent's risk for violence on the street and provide rules concerning honor, protection, and retribution. However, the heavy use of drugs and alcohol on the st…
Street Youths and Substance Use: The Role of Background, Street Lifestyle, and Economic Factors
This research examines the role that various background, labor market, and street lifestyle factors play in street youths' drug and alcohol use. Using a sample of 200 homeless male street youths, the researcher found that exposure to parental substance abuse increases street youths' risk of alcohol and hard-drug use. Further, histories of physical abuse are related to the use of psychedelic drugs. The data also indicate that long-term homelessnes…
Street youth and labor market strain
Self-Control, Social Consequences, and Criminal Behavior: Street Youth and the General Theory of Crime
Using a sample of 400 homeless street youth, this article examines the role that self-control plays in the generation of crime and drug use as well as its link to negative social consequences. It also explores if these social consequences are themselves related to crime as predicted in strain and differential association theory, or if their impact is eliminated by the presence of low self-control. The results reveal that low self-control predicts…
Street Youth Violence And Victimization
The article reviews the literature surrounding street youth violence and victimization. It examines the role backgrounds of physical and sexual victimization play in street youth[#x2019]s taking to the street and their link to violent behaviors once there. It reveals that violent home experiences educate street youth to use force to settle disputes and provide cultural rules that support violence. On the street, these rules are broadened and rein…
General Strain, Street Youth and Crime: A Test of Agnew's Revised Theory
Using a sample of homeless street youth, this research examines how specific forms of strain–emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, homelessness and being a victim of robbery, violence or theft, relative deprivation, monetary dissatisfaction and unemployment–lead to crime and drug use. It also explores how strain is conditioned by deviant peers, deviant attitudes, external attributions, self‐esteem and self‐efficacy. The results reveal th…
Street youth, strain theory, and crime
Self-control, risky lifestyles, and situation: The role of opportunity and context in the general theory
Street Youth, Gender, Financial Strain, and Crime: Exploring Broidy and Agnew's Extension to General Strain Theory
General strain theory posits that adversive circumstances experienced by youths increase the likelihood of criminal behavior. Broidy and Agnew argue that while the underlying process identified in the general strain model will be applicable to both male and female crime different models of strain may be required to highlight gender differences in the underlying process. Utilizing a "high risk" sample of 400 homeless street youths the study examin…
Street youths' violent responses to violent personal, vicarious, and anticipated strain
Differential Coercion, Street Youth, and Violent Crime
Using a sample of 300 homeless street youths, this study examines differential coercion theory and the role that coercion and the socialpsychological deficits of anger, low self‐control, coercive modeling, coercive ideation, and control imbalances play in the generation of violent crime. Results from cross‐sectional and prospective offending models that examine the individual mediators reveal that coercion has a direct relationship with violent o…
Street youths’ control imbalance and soft and hard drug use
Street Youths′ Fear of Violent Crime
Utilizing a sample of 300 street youths the article examines the roles, perceptions of control, depression, prior victimization, criminal behavior, peer crime and victimization, homelessness, and violent subcultural values play in the perception of violent victimization risk and the fear of violent crime. Results suggest that previous victimization and peers’ victimization along with depression and an external locus of control increases perceptio…
Crime and the American Dream
Criminologists explain that the pursuit of the American Dream and the extreme emphasis placed on monetary success in American society lead to high rates of serious crime. It is argued that because American society stresses economic achievement to a much greater extent than the use of legitimate methods to reach these economic goals, there is a higher use of illegal and more efficient means, including violence, to achieve economic success. Other i…
Morality, Self-Control, Deterrence, and Drug Use: Street Youths and Situational Action Theory
Utilizing a sample of homeless street youth, the authors apply Wikström’s situational action theory (SAT) to explaining drug use. The article examines the assertion that morality is the most important factor in explaining crime and that self-control and deterrence are key factors in understanding criminal behavior only at moderate levels of morality. Results reveal that morality has a strong effect on hard but not soft drug use, whereas the impac…
Childhood Trauma, Criminogenic Social Schemas, and Violent Crime
Utilizing a sample of 400 homeless street youth, the study draws on the social schematic theory of crime to examine if childhood trauma (physical abuse, physical neglect, emotional neglect, and sexual abuse) is linked to the development of a criminogenic knowledge structure (CKS) that mediates its relationship with violence. Results indicate childhood trauma is directly associated with the CKS. They also show that it is indirectly related through…
Street Youth, Violence, and Hirschi's Redefinition of Self-Control
The research examines Hirschi's redefinition of self-control and its link to violence. Utilizing a sample of 287 homeless street youth the paper explores the criminogenic impacts of three different operationalizations of self-control. It investigates the direct effects of bonding self-control, attitudinal self-control, and decisional self-control on violence and assesses the indirect relationships that bonding self-control and attitudinal self-co…
Crime Patterns and Interventions (20 works) · Psychology (20 works) · Criminology (17 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (17 works) · Social Psychology (17 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (11 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Criminal behavior (7 works)