RT Article
T1 What Protects Those at High Risk from Criminal Justice Contact Despite the Odds? A Negative Case Analysis
JF The British journal of criminology
VO 60
IS 6
SP 1627
OP 1647
A1 Doherty, Elaine Eggleston
A2 Bersani, Bianca E.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/173825805X
AB Criminal justice contact is a prevalent, if not expected, life event for many high-risk individuals with deleterious consequences; yet, many individuals at high risk are able to avoid this contact (i.e. negative cases exist). In this study, we draw on the life course framework and utilize negative case analysis to (1) estimate the prevalence of criminal justice avoidance within a sample of structurally high-risk Black men and (2) explore the individual, familial and contextual factors in childhood and adolescence that distinguish these negative cases. One’s own ‘on-time’ and one’s siblings’ education emerge as particularly strong protective factors suggesting that the presence of unique protection, as opposed to the absence of risk, may be most salient. Theoretical implications are discussed.
K1 Negative cases
K1 Resilience
K1 Protective factors
K1 Life course
K1 Siblings
DO 10.1093/bjc/azaa043