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1. Walters, Glenn D.
Short-Term Goals and Physically Hedonistic Values as Mediators of the Past-Crime--Future-Crime Relationship
Legal and Criminological Psychology 20,1 (February 2015): 81-95.
Also: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/lcrp.12014/abstract
Cohort(s): Children of the NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult
Publisher: Wiley Online
Keyword(s): Adolescent Behavior; Behavior Problems Index (BPI); Behavior, Antisocial; Behavioral Problems; Crime; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Home Observation for Measurement of Environment (HOME); Risk-Taking; Self-Regulation/Self-Control

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Purpose: This study was designed to evaluate whether two features of antisocial cognition, short-term goals, and physically hedonistic values mediate the past-crime--future-crime relationship.

Methods: Data from 395 members of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child Data (NLSY-C) were used to test this hypothesis. A path analysis was performed, with past crime serving as the independent (predictor) variable, future crime serving as the dependent (outcome) variable, and short-term goals and physically hedonistic values serving as mediating variables. Results: The results of a structured equation modelling path analysis revealed a significant mediating effect for hedonistic values but not for short-term goals, when both variables were included in the same analysis. A causal mediation analysis was then conducted on the past crime → physically hedonistic values → future crime relationship, the results of which disclosed the presence of a partially mediated effect of physically hedonistic values on the past-crime--future-crime relationship after controlling for age, race, gender, and low self-control. When short-term goals were analysed separately, they also partially mediated the past-crime--future-crime relationship, although the effect was weaker than when physically hedonistic values served as the mediator.

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Walters, Glenn D. "Short-Term Goals and Physically Hedonistic Values as Mediators of the Past-Crime--Future-Crime Relationship." Legal and Criminological Psychology 20,1 (February 2015): 81-95.