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Title: Reconceptualizing Crime as an Independent Variable: The Social and Personal Consequences of Criminal Involvement
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Makarios, Matthew |
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Reconceptualizing Crime as an Independent Variable: The Social and Personal Consequences of Criminal Involvement Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, 2009. Also: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/pg_10?::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:82767#abstract-files Cohort(s): NLSY97 Publisher: OhioLINK Keyword(s): Crime; Criminal Justice System; Delinquency/Gang Activity; Social Emotional Development; Variables, Independent - Covariate Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. As a discipline, criminology has long focused its attention on explaining crime and has thus placed crime almost exclusively as an outcome. As a result, little attention has been paid to the effect that criminal involvement has on other social domains, such as education, work, and relationships. To do so, criminal behavior must be understood as one of several social domains that interact within the broader context of social development. Grounded in this developmental perspective, this research used the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997, to examine the consequences of adolescent criminal involvement on social development in early adulthood. The results provide substantial support for the suggested relationships. That is, measures of adolescent delinquency, drug use, and gang membership were found to have significant impacts on adult social outcomes. Adolescent delinquency in particular was shown to have the most consistent effects on measures from the domains of education / employment, health, and social activities. Adolescent criminal involvement, however, had little influence on measures from the domain of social relationships. Support was also shown for indirect effects of adolescent criminal involvement because of associations between social outcomes. That is, criminal involvement in adolescence impacted adult social outcomes through its effect on other social outcomes that existed earlier in the developmental sequence. |
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Makarios, Matthew. Reconceptualizing Crime as an Independent Variable: The Social and Personal Consequences of Criminal Involvement. Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Criminal Justice, University of Cincinnati, 2009.. |