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Author: DeWitt, Samuel
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1. DeWitt, Samuel
Apel, Robert
Perceptual Deterrence and Deterrability: Individual Differences and Risk Perceptions in a National Sample
Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 2012
Cohort(s): NLSY97
Publisher: American Society of Criminology
Keyword(s): Arrests; Bayesian; Crime; Risk Perception

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The current project aims to describe and explain change over time in individual perceptions of the risk of arrest in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 (NLSY97). With an appeal to contemporary models of Bayesian learning, the degree to which risk perceptions are "updated" in response to personal and vicarious experiences with criminal behavior and arrest will be examined. Furthermore, this study will consider the degree to which perceptual updating in response to past experiences is moderated by a variety of measures of "deterrability" (e.g., present orientation).
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DeWitt, Samuel and Robert Apel. "Perceptual Deterrence and Deterrability: Individual Differences and Risk Perceptions in a National Sample." Presented: Chicago IL, American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting, 2012.