Maturing out of delinquency
Unpacking the effects of identity achievement and future orientation on crime desistance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 15411396 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Glenn D Walters (0000-0002-7219-1542, Kutztown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 267-283 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Self and Identity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1529-8868 • E-ISSN: 1529-8876 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/15298868.2018.1439848 |
| OpenAlex | W2793274081 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 55 |
The current investigation sought to determine whether identity achievement and future orientation had a bearing on desistance from crime. Participants were the 1,354 members of the Pathways to Desistance study. To test the hypothesis that identity achievement would precede future orientation in encouraging desistance from serious delinquency identity achievement and future orientation were cross-lagged at ages 20 and 21 and regressed onto total offending at age 22. Consistent with predictions, the pathway running from identity achievement at age 20 to future orientation at age 21 to offending at age 22 was significant and the pathway running from future orientation at age 20 to identity achievement at age 21 to offending at age 22 was non-significant. Study site, sex, race, and ethnicity failed to moderate these results. Findings from this study indicate that psychosocial maturity plays an important role in encouraging desistance from crime. It would appear that the development of a mature and well integrated social identity can extend an emerging adult’s time horizon while improving his or her decision-making skills, all in the name of improving the person’s odds of desisting from a criminal lifestyle
Criminology · Developmental psychology · Identity (music · Juvenile delinquency · Logistic regression · Odds · Psychosocial · Social group · Social identity theory · Optimism, Hope, and Well-being · Psychological and Temporal Perspectives Research · Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction · Psychology · Social Psychology
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Advances in Mediation Analysis
Female desistance
Mediation Analysis in Social Psychology
Optimism, coping, and health
Asymptotic and resampling strategies for assessing and comparing indirect effects in multiple mediator models
Testing Mediational Models With Longitudinal Data
A Life-Course View of the Development of Crime
Are There Multiple Paths to Delinquency
Learning to Stand Alone
Scaling Criminal Offending
Crime in the Making
Power Anomalies in Testing Mediation
The Performance of Methods to Test Upper-Level Mediation in the Presence of Nonnormal Data
What Does It Mean to Engage in Identity Exploration and to Hold Identity Commitments? A Methodological Critique of Multidimensional Measures for the Study of Identity Processes
Missing data methods for dealing with missing items in quality of life questionnaires. A comparison by simulation of personal mean score, full information maximum likelihood, multiple imputation, and hot deck techniques applied to the SF-36 in the French 2003 decennial health survey
Advantages of Monte Carlo Confidence Intervals for Indirect Effects
P M effect size estimation for mediation analysis
What Have We Learned from Five Decades of Neutralization Research
Does Marriage Reduce Crime
Great Pretenders
The measurement and structure of psychosocial maturity
Identity Styles and Conflict Resolution Styles
A Life-Course View of the Development of Crime
Crime and the Transition to Marriage
Endogenous Selection Bias
Criminal Careers in the Short-Term
The consideration of future consequences
Understanding Desistance from Crime
A Discounting Framework for Choice With Delayed and Probabilistic Rewards
Settling Down and Aging Out
Emotions and Crime over the Life Course
Gender, Crime, and Desistance
Testing Sampson and Laub's life course theory
| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 0,83 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2024 (5) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |