RT Article
T1 Scared or Attached? Unraveling Important Links in Strain-Crime Relationships Among School Students
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 63
IS 8
SP 1175
OP 1201
A1 Kuptsevych-Timmer, Anastasiia
A2 Antonaccio, Olena
A2 Botchkovar, Ekaterina
A2 Smith, William R.
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1670710440
AB Drawing on general strain theory of crime, the study employs the survey data from a random sample of 600 school students in Lviv, Ukraine, to examine how sanction risks and social bonds mediate and moderate the relationship between strain and adolescent delinquency. Findings from negative binomial regressions and the KHB decomposition procedure demonstrate that fear of sanctions and levels of social control mediate the relationships between strain and delinquency to a different degree, depending on the type of strain experienced. Results concerning conditioning effects are mixed, with only parental monitoring found to be a moderator of the strain-delinquency link. However, the direction of the interaction effect is unexpected. Future research needs to improve the specification of strain models and evaluate them in other sociocultural contexts.
K1 Delinquency
K1 General strain theory
K1 Adolescents
K1 Social bonds
K1 Perceived risk of sanctions
DO 10.1177/0306624X18814342