Using Vignettes to Assess Gendered Responses to Strain: The Role of Negative State Emotion in Predicting Male vs. Female Intentions to Offend
This study examines Broidy and Agnew’s propositions that gender disparity in crime may be due to (1) male and females’ experience of distinct emotional reactions to strain and (2) male and females’ response to these emotional reactions with distinct levels of offending. Using a vignette study design...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2021
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Women & criminal justice
Year: 2021, Volume: 31, Issue: 4, Pages: 242-260 |
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| Summary: | This study examines Broidy and Agnew’s propositions that gender disparity in crime may be due to (1) male and females’ experience of distinct emotional reactions to strain and (2) male and females’ response to these emotional reactions with distinct levels of offending. Using a vignette study design with measures spanning a broad range of state emotions and conditioning variables, this study adds to the range of emotion and conditioning variables currently considered in the GST literature, providing a particularly robust test of GST. As expected, results indicate females experience more complex emotional responses to strain, and males are more likely to respond to equivalent types of state negative emotion with intentions to offend. Differences in criminal propensities are largely explained by variables outlined as important GST moderators. Variations by vignette and emotion reveal a more complex relationship between gender, emotion and offending than previously demonstrated. |
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| ISSN: | 1541-0323 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/08974454.2019.1706697 |