Does Policing Help or Hurt? Examining the Longitudinal Relationship Between Police Involvement and Delinquency in Norway
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8400760 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Synøve Nygaard Andersen (0000-0002-6665-3093, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 308-325 |
| Publication date | 2024-02-15 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The British Journal of Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-0955 • E-ISSN: 1464-3529 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/bjc/azad032 |
| OpenAlex | W4385725402 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 46 |
The population heterogeneity argument links criminality to time-stable individual traits and suggests that criminal justice system involvements exert no independent influence on criminal behaviour. This study directly tests this postulation by estimating the relationship between police involvement and subsequent delinquency in an individual fixed effects design. The analysis relies on five waves of longitudinal data on self-reported delinquency and administrative data on police contacts. Results show that time-stable individual traits matter, but that the frequency of police contacts is positively associated with offending also after such characteristics have been accounted for. The results are thus in line with the state dependence argument and provide tentative support for labelling theory’s postulation that criminal justice involvement increases rather than decreases criminal behaviour
Argument (complex analysis) · Criminal behavior · Criminal justice · Criminology · Econometrics · Economics · General strain theory · Juvenile delinquency · Longitudinal data · Longitudinal study · Panel data · Population · Sociology · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis · Demography · Mathematics · Medicine · Policing Practices and Perceptions · Psychology · Social Psychology
Fixed Effects Regression Models
Criminal Deterrence
Adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent antisocial behavior
Human deviance, social problems, and social control
Developmental Theories of Crime and Delinquency
A Life-Course Theory of Cumulative Disadvantage and the Stability of Delinquency
Explaining Criminal Careers
The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Penal Exceptionalism
Official Labeling, Criminal Embeddedness, and Subsequent Delinquency
Crime, Shame and Reintegration
Cross-National Research in Self-Reported Crime and Delinquency
A General Theory of Crime
Crime in the Making
Crime and the Community
Outsiders
Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives
Developmental Criminology Updated
Crime, Criminal Justice, and Criminology in the Nordic Countries
Incarceration, Recidivism, and Employment
Crime and Punishment
Delinquency abstainers in adolescence and educational and labor market outcomes in midlife
Labeling, Life Chances, and Adult Crime
The Onset and Persistence of Offending
Does contact with the justice system deter or promote future delinquency? Results from a longitudinal study of British adolescent twins
Criminal records and college admissions
Neuropsychological Tests Predicting Persistent Male Delinquency
Are Some People Crime‐prone? Replications of the Personality‐crime Relationship Across Countries, Genders, Races, and Methods
The Unintended Consequences of Being Stopped or Arrested
On the Relationship of Past to Future Participation in Delinquency
Scandinavian Exceptionalism in an Era of Penal Excess
The Persistence of Labelling Effects
Patterns of Delinquency in Norwegian Adolescents
The Effects of Public Labelling
A Modified Labeling Theory Approach to Mental Disorders
The Specific Deterrent Effects of Arrest for Domestic Assault
Gender, Crime, and Desistance
Reflected Appraisals, Parental Labeling, and Delinquency
Age and the Explanation of Crime
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |