Sanzhar Daniyarov, Yerlan Turgumbayev, Assel Sharipova, Aigul Malikova, Beaver Kevin M
Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Florida State University, Tallahassee, USA.
Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol. 2025 Jun 26:306624X251345511. doi: 10.1177/0306624X251345511.
There has been a considerable amount of research examining the role that poverty might play in the development of crime and with being processed through the criminal justice system. Despite this research, there still remain some important gaps in the knowledge base, including whether poverty differentially moderates the effects of criminal behavior and criminogenic influences on being processed through the criminal justice system. The current study addressed this gap by examining whether poverty in adolescence moderated the influence of antisocial behavior and criminogenic influences on being arrested, convicted, and incarcerated in adulthood. Findings revealed little evidence of poverty as a moderating influence on criminal justice processing. The one exception, however, was that poverty moderated the association between antisocial behavior and incarceration such that antisocial behavior had no association on incarceration for persons living in poverty, but that it had a statistically significant and positive association with incarceration for persons not living in poverty. The results of this study are discussed in relation to the existing literature on the poverty-crime nexus.
已有大量研究探讨贫困在犯罪发展以及通过刑事司法系统处理犯罪过程中可能扮演的角色。尽管有这些研究，但在知识基础方面仍存在一些重要空白，包括贫困是否以不同方式调节犯罪行为和犯罪成因对通过刑事司法系统处理犯罪的影响。当前研究通过考察青少年时期的贫困是否调节反社会行为和犯罪成因对成年后被捕、定罪和监禁的影响来填补这一空白。研究结果显示，几乎没有证据表明贫困对刑事司法程序有调节作用。然而，唯一的例外是，贫困调节了反社会行为与监禁之间的关联，即反社会行为与贫困者的监禁没有关联，但与非贫困者的监禁有统计学上显著的正相关。本研究结果结合关于贫困与犯罪关系的现有文献进行了讨论。
