RT Article
T1 Street Youth, Social Schemas, and Crime
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 44
IS 12
SP 1620
OP 1638
A1 Baron, Stephen W.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1701031418
AB Utilizing 400 youths living on the street, the article examines the social schematic theory of crime developed by Simons and Burt. It explores the role homelessness, physical abuse, emotional neglect, violent victimization, and peers play in the development of criminogenic knowledge structures (CKSs). It then examines the associations between adverse experiences, the CKS, and crime. Results show that deviant peers mediate the relationships between physical abuse, homelessness, violent victimization, and the CKS, while emotional neglect is directly associated with the CKS. The CKS in turn is directly linked to crime along with peers, homelessness, and violent victimization. The CKS also mediates the relationships between deviant peers and offending, and emotional neglect and offending. The relationships between physical abuse, homelessness, violent victimization, and crime are mediated by deviant peers. Furthermore, these relationships are also serially mediated through deviant peers and the CKS. Avenues for future research and policy implications are discussed.
K1 Social schematic theory
K1 Street youth
K1 Homelessness
K1 Crime
K1 Abuse
K1 Victimization
DO 10.1177/0093854817726805