Olena Antonaccio
Biographic Data
| ID | 4199216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olena Antonaccio |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olena |
| FAMILY NAME | Antonaccio |
| SIGNATURE | ANTONACCIO O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Miami |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3795-3898 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 143 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
‘S/he Loves Me Not: War and intimate partner violence in Ukraine
Using a random sample of 1185 Ukrainian adults, the study examines the influence of exposure to the Donbas war, relative to factors such as alcohol use, daily stressors, and negative emotions, on involvement in intimate partner violence (IPV) among men and women. The findings indicate that daily stressors, negative emotions, and alcohol abuse consistently predict involvement in IPV for both genders, with daily stressors and negative affect demons…
Wired for Risk? TRDM, Self-Control, and Peer Deviance in Cybercrime
Using data from a survey of full-time employees at a large private university ( n = 872), this study examines the relationship between thoughtfully reflective decision-making (TRDM) and cybercrime and the moderating roles of self-control and deviant peer associations. Results show that TRDM, self-control, and peer associations are each significantly associated with projected cybercrime in the expected directions. Furthermore, interaction analyses…
Crime and Calculation: The Decision-Making of Dark Web Actors
Drawing on rational choice and social learning theories, this study examines how social networks, subcultural immersion, and specific activities shape dark web actors’ perceptions of risks and rewards. Using original 2024 survey data from 123 active dark web users recruited across English- and Russian-language forums and Telegram channels, we analyze how peer involvement, sustained participation in deviant subcultures, and interest in particular …
Why they do it and why they don’t: Self-interest vs. altruistic tendencies as explanations of criminal behavior
Our study juxtaposes egoistic and altruistic motivations as explanations of criminal behavior. Self-control, reward/cost considerations, and moral values are investigated as possible mediating and conditional influences on the relationship between these motivations and crime. To do so, we utilize self-report data from a random sample of 1435 Ukrainian and Russian respondents. Findings confirm a relationship between altruistic orientation/self-int…
When the World Falls Apart: How People Make Decisions in the Times of War
A sample of 1,247 adults from two Ukrainian cities was analyzed to understand how exposure to the Donbas war in 2017 influenced decision-making related to violent behaviors among civilians. The study seeks to: (a) evaluate perceived rewards and costs as mediators between war exposure and violence; (b) test if war exposure increases the effect of perceived rewards and decreases the influence of perceived costs of crime on violence; (c) assess war …
The organized activities of ransomware groups: A social network approach
Youth Decision-Making and Crime: Influences of Stressful Conditions, Adverse Mental and Physical States, and Conventional Activities
This study focuses on sources of youth decision-making and examines paths through which these factors may affect delinquent behavior. Using longitudinal Add Health data, we explore the mediating mechanisms linking several antecedents of decision-making, thoughtfully reflective decision-making (TRDM), and crime. We find that various adverse factors (i.e., family and school stressful conditions, depression, sleep problems) reduce the ability of ado…
“My Neighborhood Is Watching Me”: The Role of Neighborhood Processes in the Offending and Self-Control–Crime Nexus
Using survey data from a sample of 1,435 Ukrainian and Russian adults, this study examines the interplay between collective processes, individual-level self-control, and offending. Multilevel regression models estimate the direct effects of neighborhood-level self-control, perceptions of sanction risks, and strain on criminal behavior, showing how these contextual factors condition the association between individual-level self-control and offendi…
Forced to flee out and down: Depression following the Russian invasion and displacement of the Ukrainian people
Violent Conflict in Contemporary Europe: Specifying the Relationship Between War Exposure and Interpersonal Violence in a War-Weary Country
This study uses survey data from multi-stage stratified random samples of adults from two large Ukrainian cities to examine and specify associations between war exposure and the likelihood of committing violent acts against another person. Findings from regression models reveal that both direct and vicarious war exposure predict projected interpersonal violence by civilians, and mediation analyses show that daily strains and, in some instances, n…
Stress and depression as pathways between violent conflict exposure and moral beliefs: Why people sometimes condone “bad” things
Schools, Subcultural Values, and the Risk of Youth Violence: The Influence of the Code of the Street among Students in Three U.S. Cities
Exploring Vulnerability to Deviant Coping among Victims of Crime in Two Post-Soviet Cities
This study pursues two important goals: 1) assessment of the offender-victim overlap in non-Western cultural contexts and 2) examination of complex moderating influences and mediating factors that help explain the relationship between offending and victimization. Interview data from 700 Ukrainian and 735 Russian adults are used to assess main and interactive effects of theoretical predictors on violent and property offending. Findings reveal a mo…
Hot or Cool Processing? Adolescent Decision-Making and Delinquency
Adolescence is a vulnerable period of individual development when decision-making is easily compromised, and criminal involvement reaches its peak. We draw on and extend novel decision-making perspectives and use the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 13,399) to analyze whether factors representing adverse physical conditions, negative mental states, and stressful social circumstances condition t…
New Applications of Self-Control Theory to Computer-Focused Cyber Deviance and Victimization: A Comparison of Cognitive and Behavioral Measures of Self-Control and Test of Peer Cyber Deviance and Gend…
This study tests the effects of behavioral and cognitive measures of self-control on computer-focused cyber deviance and cyber victimization with survey data from 1,036 adult employees. We examine moderating effects of cyber deviant peers and gender in the relationship between self-control, and cyber deviance and victimization. Cognitive and behavioral measures of self-control are negativity associated with cyber deviance, whereas only behavioral…
Neighbourhood Disorder, Collective Sentiments and Personal Strain: Bringing Neighbourhood Context Into General Strain Theory
Using a random sample of 1,435 Ukrainian and Russian respondents, this study integrates the predictions of Agnew’s macro-level strain theory (MST) and general strain theory (GST). Specifically, it seeks to identify possible interactive effects of context—community-level strain, negative affect and religiosity—and individual strain-related variables on personal criminal involvement and depressive symptoms. Findings provide evidence of individual-l…
The Role of Adolescent Friendship Group Integration and Cohesion in Weapon-Related Violent Crime as a Young Adult
Cannabis Use and Antisocial Behavior among Youth
Despite the numerous efforts to curb substance use and abuse through legislation and interventions, marijuana consumption continues to be a major social problem, particularly among young adults in the United States. We provide new information on the relationship between cannabis use and antisocial behavior by analyzing a sample of young adults (aged 18-20) from the National Epidemiological Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). We exa…
Does Religion Suppress, Socialize, Soothe, or Support? Exploring Religiosity's Influence on Crime
A negative association between religiosity and crime is commonly documented in the United States and other Western contexts. In this study, we examine associations between religiosity and criminal probability among randomly selected survey respondents in a non-Western Christian context (Lviv, Ukraine) and a non-Western Islamic context (Dhaka, Bangladesh). In addition, we explore whether religiosity is associated in these contexts with various the…
Social Learning, Reinforcement and Crime: Evidence from Three European Cities
This study reports a cross-cultural test of Social Learning Theory using direct measures of social learning constructs and focusing on the causal structure implied by the theory. Overall, the results strongly confirm the main thrust of the theory. Prior criminal reinforcement and current crime-favorable definitions are highly related in all three contexts and both strongly predict self-projections of criminal behavior. In addition, effects of pri…
Severe Sanctions, Easy Choice? Investigating the Role of School Sanctions in Preventing Adolescent Violent Offending
Although schools in the United States adopted harsher disciplinary policies in the early 1990s, to date, there is little evidence showing whether severe school sanctions against student misconduct prevent crime. Drawing on both deterrence and rational choice theories, we test the proposition that harsh school‐based policies against violence reduce students’ involvement in violent behavior. However, in contrast to prior research that explores the …
Childhood Experiences and Self-Control
Survey data collected simultaneously in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Lviv, Ukraine; and a rural area of the Lviv region in Ukraine are used to examine hypothesized sources of self-control found in Gottfredson and Hirschi's self-control theory (G/H) and in coercion/social support theory (CSS). Analyses provide limited support for the G/H model and almost no support for the challenge posed by arguments concerning social support and self-control. Exploratory …
Expected utility, self-control, morality, and criminal probability
General Strain Theory: Additional Evidence Using Cross‐cultural Data
Data from random samples of residents in major cities of Russia, Ukraine, and Greece are employed to test hypotheses about linkages among objective strain, subjective strain, anger, and criminal probability specified in general strain theory (GST). In addition, the potential conditioning effects of religiosity and self‐control on the strain/criminal probability relationship are investigated. Results show more challenge than support for GST. In pa…
Morality, Self‐control, and Crime
This paper offers evidence to specify further Self‐Control Theory by investigating its predictive strength relative to morality and its interconnections with morality in accounting for criminal probability. Using random sample household survey data from Lviv, Ukraine, we confirm that self‐control is an important predictor of criminal probabilities in an unusual cultural context. However, morality is also shown to be a strong independent predictor…
Morality, Self‐control, and Crime
This paper offers evidence to specify further Self‐Control Theory by investigating its predictive strength relative to morality and its interconnections with morality in accounting for criminal probability. Using random sample household survey data from Lviv, Ukraine, we confirm that self‐control is an important predictor of criminal probabilities in an unusual cultural context. However, morality is also shown to be a strong independent predictor…
General Strain Theory: Additional Evidence Using Cross‐cultural Data
Data from random samples of residents in major cities of Russia, Ukraine, and Greece are employed to test hypotheses about linkages among objective strain, subjective strain, anger, and criminal probability specified in general strain theory (GST). In addition, the potential conditioning effects of religiosity and self‐control on the strain/criminal probability relationship are investigated. Results show more challenge than support for GST. In pa…
A Cross‐national Test of Bonger's Theory of Criminality and Economic Conditions
Using international data for 100 countries, we test two hypotheses derived from Bonger's Marxian theory of crime. The analyses support the hypothesis that the degree of capitalism significantly predicts homicide rates, but they fail to confirm that the de‐moralization of the population (loss of moral feelings for others) mediates the relationship between capitalism and homicide. Although capitalism is not the best predictor among those considered…
Expected utility, self-control, morality, and criminal probability
Severe Sanctions, Easy Choice? Investigating the Role of School Sanctions in Preventing Adolescent Violent Offending
Although schools in the United States adopted harsher disciplinary policies in the early 1990s, to date, there is little evidence showing whether severe school sanctions against student misconduct prevent crime. Drawing on both deterrence and rational choice theories, we test the proposition that harsh school‐based policies against violence reduce students’ involvement in violent behavior. However, in contrast to prior research that explores the …
Does Religion Suppress, Socialize, Soothe, or Support? Exploring Religiosity's Influence on Crime
A negative association between religiosity and crime is commonly documented in the United States and other Western contexts. In this study, we examine associations between religiosity and criminal probability among randomly selected survey respondents in a non-Western Christian context (Lviv, Ukraine) and a non-Western Islamic context (Dhaka, Bangladesh). In addition, we explore whether religiosity is associated in these contexts with various the…
Neighbourhood Disorder, Collective Sentiments and Personal Strain: Bringing Neighbourhood Context Into General Strain Theory
Using a random sample of 1,435 Ukrainian and Russian respondents, this study integrates the predictions of Agnew’s macro-level strain theory (MST) and general strain theory (GST). Specifically, it seeks to identify possible interactive effects of context—community-level strain, negative affect and religiosity—and individual strain-related variables on personal criminal involvement and depressive symptoms. Findings provide evidence of individual-l…
Childhood Experiences and Self-Control
Survey data collected simultaneously in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Lviv, Ukraine; and a rural area of the Lviv region in Ukraine are used to examine hypothesized sources of self-control found in Gottfredson and Hirschi's self-control theory (G/H) and in coercion/social support theory (CSS). Analyses provide limited support for the G/H model and almost no support for the challenge posed by arguments concerning social support and self-control. Exploratory …
The organized activities of ransomware groups: A social network approach
Social Learning, Reinforcement and Crime: Evidence from Three European Cities
This study reports a cross-cultural test of Social Learning Theory using direct measures of social learning constructs and focusing on the causal structure implied by the theory. Overall, the results strongly confirm the main thrust of the theory. Prior criminal reinforcement and current crime-favorable definitions are highly related in all three contexts and both strongly predict self-projections of criminal behavior. In addition, effects of pri…
Stress and depression as pathways between violent conflict exposure and moral beliefs: Why people sometimes condone “bad” things
Cannabis Use and Antisocial Behavior among Youth
Despite the numerous efforts to curb substance use and abuse through legislation and interventions, marijuana consumption continues to be a major social problem, particularly among young adults in the United States. We provide new information on the relationship between cannabis use and antisocial behavior by analyzing a sample of young adults (aged 18-20) from the National Epidemiological Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). We exa…
A Cross‐national Test of Bonger's Theory of Criminality and Economic Conditions
Using international data for 100 countries, we test two hypotheses derived from Bonger's Marxian theory of crime. The analyses support the hypothesis that the degree of capitalism significantly predicts homicide rates, but they fail to confirm that the de‐moralization of the population (loss of moral feelings for others) mediates the relationship between capitalism and homicide. Although capitalism is not the best predictor among those considered…
Morality, Self‐control, and Crime
This paper offers evidence to specify further Self‐Control Theory by investigating its predictive strength relative to morality and its interconnections with morality in accounting for criminal probability. Using random sample household survey data from Lviv, Ukraine, we confirm that self‐control is an important predictor of criminal probabilities in an unusual cultural context. However, morality is also shown to be a strong independent predictor…
General Strain Theory: Additional Evidence Using Cross‐cultural Data
Data from random samples of residents in major cities of Russia, Ukraine, and Greece are employed to test hypotheses about linkages among objective strain, subjective strain, anger, and criminal probability specified in general strain theory (GST). In addition, the potential conditioning effects of religiosity and self‐control on the strain/criminal probability relationship are investigated. Results show more challenge than support for GST. In pa…
Expected utility, self-control, morality, and criminal probability
Social Learning, Reinforcement and Crime: Evidence from Three European Cities
This study reports a cross-cultural test of Social Learning Theory using direct measures of social learning constructs and focusing on the causal structure implied by the theory. Overall, the results strongly confirm the main thrust of the theory. Prior criminal reinforcement and current crime-favorable definitions are highly related in all three contexts and both strongly predict self-projections of criminal behavior. In addition, effects of pri…
Severe Sanctions, Easy Choice? Investigating the Role of School Sanctions in Preventing Adolescent Violent Offending
Although schools in the United States adopted harsher disciplinary policies in the early 1990s, to date, there is little evidence showing whether severe school sanctions against student misconduct prevent crime. Drawing on both deterrence and rational choice theories, we test the proposition that harsh school‐based policies against violence reduce students’ involvement in violent behavior. However, in contrast to prior research that explores the …
Childhood Experiences and Self-Control
Survey data collected simultaneously in Dhaka, Bangladesh; Lviv, Ukraine; and a rural area of the Lviv region in Ukraine are used to examine hypothesized sources of self-control found in Gottfredson and Hirschi's self-control theory (G/H) and in coercion/social support theory (CSS). Analyses provide limited support for the G/H model and almost no support for the challenge posed by arguments concerning social support and self-control. Exploratory …
Does Religion Suppress, Socialize, Soothe, or Support? Exploring Religiosity's Influence on Crime
A negative association between religiosity and crime is commonly documented in the United States and other Western contexts. In this study, we examine associations between religiosity and criminal probability among randomly selected survey respondents in a non-Western Christian context (Lviv, Ukraine) and a non-Western Islamic context (Dhaka, Bangladesh). In addition, we explore whether religiosity is associated in these contexts with various the…
Cannabis Use and Antisocial Behavior among Youth
Despite the numerous efforts to curb substance use and abuse through legislation and interventions, marijuana consumption continues to be a major social problem, particularly among young adults in the United States. We provide new information on the relationship between cannabis use and antisocial behavior by analyzing a sample of young adults (aged 18-20) from the National Epidemiological Survey of Alcohol and Related Conditions (NESARC). We exa…
The Role of Adolescent Friendship Group Integration and Cohesion in Weapon-Related Violent Crime as a Young Adult
Neighbourhood Disorder, Collective Sentiments and Personal Strain: Bringing Neighbourhood Context Into General Strain Theory
Using a random sample of 1,435 Ukrainian and Russian respondents, this study integrates the predictions of Agnew’s macro-level strain theory (MST) and general strain theory (GST). Specifically, it seeks to identify possible interactive effects of context—community-level strain, negative affect and religiosity—and individual strain-related variables on personal criminal involvement and depressive symptoms. Findings provide evidence of individual-l…
Exploring Vulnerability to Deviant Coping among Victims of Crime in Two Post-Soviet Cities
This study pursues two important goals: 1) assessment of the offender-victim overlap in non-Western cultural contexts and 2) examination of complex moderating influences and mediating factors that help explain the relationship between offending and victimization. Interview data from 700 Ukrainian and 735 Russian adults are used to assess main and interactive effects of theoretical predictors on violent and property offending. Findings reveal a mo…
Hot or Cool Processing? Adolescent Decision-Making and Delinquency
Adolescence is a vulnerable period of individual development when decision-making is easily compromised, and criminal involvement reaches its peak. We draw on and extend novel decision-making perspectives and use the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 13,399) to analyze whether factors representing adverse physical conditions, negative mental states, and stressful social circumstances condition t…
New Applications of Self-Control Theory to Computer-Focused Cyber Deviance and Victimization: A Comparison of Cognitive and Behavioral Measures of Self-Control and Test of Peer Cyber Deviance and Gend…
This study tests the effects of behavioral and cognitive measures of self-control on computer-focused cyber deviance and cyber victimization with survey data from 1,036 adult employees. We examine moderating effects of cyber deviant peers and gender in the relationship between self-control, and cyber deviance and victimization. Cognitive and behavioral measures of self-control are negativity associated with cyber deviance, whereas only behavioral…
Stress and depression as pathways between violent conflict exposure and moral beliefs: Why people sometimes condone “bad” things
Schools, Subcultural Values, and the Risk of Youth Violence: The Influence of the Code of the Street among Students in Three U.S. Cities
“My Neighborhood Is Watching Me”: The Role of Neighborhood Processes in the Offending and Self-Control–Crime Nexus
Using survey data from a sample of 1,435 Ukrainian and Russian adults, this study examines the interplay between collective processes, individual-level self-control, and offending. Multilevel regression models estimate the direct effects of neighborhood-level self-control, perceptions of sanction risks, and strain on criminal behavior, showing how these contextual factors condition the association between individual-level self-control and offendi…
Forced to flee out and down: Depression following the Russian invasion and displacement of the Ukrainian people
Violent Conflict in Contemporary Europe: Specifying the Relationship Between War Exposure and Interpersonal Violence in a War-Weary Country
This study uses survey data from multi-stage stratified random samples of adults from two large Ukrainian cities to examine and specify associations between war exposure and the likelihood of committing violent acts against another person. Findings from regression models reveal that both direct and vicarious war exposure predict projected interpersonal violence by civilians, and mediation analyses show that daily strains and, in some instances, n…
Youth Decision-Making and Crime: Influences of Stressful Conditions, Adverse Mental and Physical States, and Conventional Activities
This study focuses on sources of youth decision-making and examines paths through which these factors may affect delinquent behavior. Using longitudinal Add Health data, we explore the mediating mechanisms linking several antecedents of decision-making, thoughtfully reflective decision-making (TRDM), and crime. We find that various adverse factors (i.e., family and school stressful conditions, depression, sleep problems) reduce the ability of ado…
Why they do it and why they don’t: Self-interest vs. altruistic tendencies as explanations of criminal behavior
Our study juxtaposes egoistic and altruistic motivations as explanations of criminal behavior. Self-control, reward/cost considerations, and moral values are investigated as possible mediating and conditional influences on the relationship between these motivations and crime. To do so, we utilize self-report data from a random sample of 1435 Ukrainian and Russian respondents. Findings confirm a relationship between altruistic orientation/self-int…
When the World Falls Apart: How People Make Decisions in the Times of War
A sample of 1,247 adults from two Ukrainian cities was analyzed to understand how exposure to the Donbas war in 2017 influenced decision-making related to violent behaviors among civilians. The study seeks to: (a) evaluate perceived rewards and costs as mediators between war exposure and violence; (b) test if war exposure increases the effect of perceived rewards and decreases the influence of perceived costs of crime on violence; (c) assess war …
The organized activities of ransomware groups: A social network approach
‘S/he Loves Me Not: War and intimate partner violence in Ukraine
Using a random sample of 1185 Ukrainian adults, the study examines the influence of exposure to the Donbas war, relative to factors such as alcohol use, daily stressors, and negative emotions, on involvement in intimate partner violence (IPV) among men and women. The findings indicate that daily stressors, negative emotions, and alcohol abuse consistently predict involvement in IPV for both genders, with daily stressors and negative affect demons…
Wired for Risk? TRDM, Self-Control, and Peer Deviance in Cybercrime
Using data from a survey of full-time employees at a large private university ( n = 872), this study examines the relationship between thoughtfully reflective decision-making (TRDM) and cybercrime and the moderating roles of self-control and deviant peer associations. Results show that TRDM, self-control, and peer associations are each significantly associated with projected cybercrime in the expected directions. Furthermore, interaction analyses…
Psychology (23 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Crime Patterns and Interventions (19 works) · Criminology (15 works) · Political science (10 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Crime, Illicit Activities, and Governance (8 works) · Poison control (8 works)