Walters Glenn D
Kutztown University, PA, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2020 Feb;64(2-3):265-288. doi: 10.1177/0306624X19872963. Epub 2019 Aug 30.
This study tested whether the sibling delinquency effect, like the peer influence effect, is mediated by proactive (planned, calculated, and amoral) criminal thinking. Youth who completed the Offending, Crime and Justice Survey (OCJS) and had a sibling living at home were divided into an early adolescent subsample ( = 795) and a mid-adolescent subsample ( = 532) after it was determined that age moderated the effect of sibling delinquency on proactive criminal thinking and serious offending. The results of a causal mediation analysis revealed a significant pathway running from sibling delinquency at Wave 1, to proactive criminal thinking at Wave 2, to serious offending at Wave 3, but only in the early adolescent subsample. These results suggest that the sibling delinquency effect may be the result of learning proactive criminal thinking in association with a delinquent sibling while still an early adolescent.
本研究检验了同胞犯罪效应是否像同伴影响效应一样，由主动型（有计划、有算计且不道德）犯罪思维介导。完成《犯罪、罪行与司法调查》（OCJS）且家中有同胞同住的青少年，在确定年龄调节了同胞犯罪对主动型犯罪思维和严重犯罪的影响后，被分为青少年早期子样本（= 795）和青少年中期子样本（= 532）。因果中介分析结果显示，存在一条从第1波的同胞犯罪，到第2波的主动型犯罪思维，再到第3波的严重犯罪的显著路径，但仅在青少年早期子样本中存在。这些结果表明，同胞犯罪效应可能是在青少年早期与犯罪同胞交往过程中习得主动型犯罪思维的结果。
