McGloin Jean Marie, Pratt Travis C
School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University, 123 Washington Street, Newark, New Jersey 07102, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2003 Jun;47(3):253-71. doi: 10.1177/0306624X03047003002.
Drawing on the emerging life-course paradigm in criminological theory, this study examines the relationship between cognitive ability and delinquent behavior within a sample of inner-city youth. The results indicate that net of statistical controls, cognitive ability maintains a robust inverse relationship with the likelihood of the onset of delinquency, the early onset of delinquency, and the persistence of delinquency during the 18-year period covered by the dataset. Furthermore, cognitive ability mediates the effect of concentrated disadvantage on both the onset and early onset of delinquency. Overall, the results of this study suggest that cognitive ability is an important criminogenic risk factor that has important implications for both correctional interventions and the continued development of structural and multilevel theories of crime.
借鉴犯罪学理论中新兴的生命历程范式，本研究考察了市中心区青少年样本中认知能力与犯罪行为之间的关系。结果表明，在进行统计控制后，认知能力与数据集所涵盖的18年期间犯罪行为的起始可能性、犯罪行为的早期起始以及犯罪行为的持续性之间保持着强烈的负相关关系。此外，认知能力介导了集中性劣势对犯罪行为起始和早期起始的影响。总体而言，本研究结果表明，认知能力是一个重要的犯罪风险因素，对矫正干预以及犯罪的结构和多层次理论的持续发展都具有重要意义。
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