Forrest Walter, Edwards Benjamin, Vassallo Suzanne
Crim Behav Ment Health. 2014 Oct;24(4):305-15. doi: 10.1002/cbm.1933.
Although self-reported and official measures of criminal behaviour are highly correlated, the concordance between self-reports and official records appears to vary across the population. Few studies, however, have considered the range of individual traits and characteristics that might influence the relative accuracy of self-reports and official records.
Using data collected from the Australian Temperament Project, we investigated the concordance between official records and self-reports together with some of the factors that might influence it.
Those with criminal records were 3.5 times more likely to report police contact than those with no criminal record. However, there were significant sources of individual-level variation in their convergence, and notably honest respondents were less likely to report an interaction with police. Those at risk of crime and delinquency were less likely to consent to official records searches.
Many individual characteristics that predisposed individuals towards a criminal career also affected their willingness to consent to official records searches and the concordance between criminal records and self-reports.
尽管自我报告的犯罪行为与官方统计的犯罪行为高度相关，但自我报告与官方记录之间的一致性在不同人群中似乎有所不同。然而，很少有研究考虑到可能影响自我报告和官方记录相对准确性的一系列个体特征。
利用从澳大利亚气质项目收集的数据，我们研究了官方记录与自我报告之间的一致性以及一些可能影响它的因素。
有犯罪记录的人报告与警方接触的可能性是没有犯罪记录的人的3.5倍。然而，在两者的一致性方面存在显著的个体层面差异，特别是诚实的受访者报告与警方互动的可能性较小。有犯罪和违法风险的人同意进行官方记录查询的可能性较小。
许多使个体倾向于犯罪生涯的个人特征也影响了他们同意进行官方记录查询的意愿以及犯罪记录与自我报告之间的一致性。
