Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA.
Department of Sociology, University of Montana, Missoula, MT 59812, USA.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2020 Apr 3;17(7):2432. doi: 10.3390/ijerph17072432.
Since Anderson's now classic, , an increasing number of researchers have found a significant association between the code of the street and antisocial behavior. Less researched, however, is the relationship between the code of the street and cognate psychological factors. Building on the hypothesis that the code of the street is simply a reflection of elements of the population who exhibit antisocial traits, our aim in this study is to empirically test whether the observed association between the code of the street and antisocial behavior can withstand psychological confounds among a sample of institutionalized juvenile delinquents. Negative binomial regression models show that the code of the street remained a significant predictor of antisocial behavior despite the specification of psychopathy and temperamental traits and other controls. Moreover, as theorized, differential effects were found for African American delinquents compared to non-African American delinquents. We discuss theoretical and practical implications.
自安德森的经典著作以来，越来越多的研究人员发现了街头文化与反社会行为之间存在显著的关联。然而，关于街头文化与同源心理因素之间的关系的研究却较少。基于这样一种假设，即街头文化只是表现出反社会特征的人群的元素的反映，我们在这项研究中的目的是在一个机构化的青少年罪犯样本中通过实证检验街头文化与反社会行为之间的观察到的关联是否可以经受住心理混淆。负二项回归模型表明，尽管规定了精神病态和气质特征以及其他控制因素，但街头文化仍然是反社会行为的一个重要预测指标。此外，正如理论所假设的那样，对于非裔美国罪犯和非非裔美国罪犯，发现了不同的影响。我们讨论了理论和实际的影响。
