RT Article
T1 Is Crime Bad for Your Health? The Link Between Delinquent Offending and Cardiometabolic Risk
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 66
IS 10
SP 1347
OP 1368
A1 Schwartz, Joseph A.
A2 Calvi, Jessica L.
A2 Granger, Douglas A.
A2 Savolainen, Jukka 1976-
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1727322797
AB Specific sources of psychophysiological dysfunction have been identified as a primary mechanism of the association between stress and health, wherein chronic and prolonged exposure to stressors results in downstream negative consequences of stress-linked dysregulation that increase the likelihood of chronic health problems. Factors pertinent to criminological inquiry have been previously identified as sources of physiological dysfunction, but the extent to which offending over the life course operates in a similar manner has yet to be examined. The current study examines the longitudinal association between delinquency and physiological dysfunction in cardiovascular and metabolic functioning (i.e., cardiometabolic risk). The results of longitudinal structural equation models revealed that greater levels of delinquency are associated with higher levels of cardiometabolic risk.
K1 Stress
K1 Cardiometabolic risk
K1 Health
K1 Delinquency
DO 10.1177/0011128720903048