Adolescence, Empathy, and the Gender Gap in Delinquency

O’Neill, Kate K.

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“…and could affect aspects of criminal behavior, including severity or persistence in the behavior (O'Neill, 2020). The results support our third hypothesis, proposing that EI and empathy predict decision-making styles in adolescent offenders and non-offenders, although we observed that the processes occur differently; these differences in effects were also seen in how the variables are related in adolescent offenders and non-offenders.…”

Section: Article In Presssupporting

confidence: 84%

“…Evidence indicates that teen offenders show less empathy than their peers in the community (Lardén et al, 2006;Robinson et al, 2007). Empathy has also been observed to be inversely related to crime, and low empathy may be a predictor of criminal behavior (O'Neill, 2020).…”

Section: Emotional Intelligence and Empathy In Offendersmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…We observed that empathic concern and perspective taking are the variables with the greatest difference in the two groups. The literature has highlighted the importance of empathy as a factor opposed to antisocial behavior (O'Neill, 2020;Robinson et al, 2007). Empathy is a psychological construct closely related to EI because understanding and regulation of emotions are required to achieve empathy, and both are expected to be affected in juvenile offenders (Estévez et al, 2019;Sa et al, 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy

Isaza

Jiménez

Montoya‐Castilla

2021

Anuario De Psicología Jurídica

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The literature indicates that adolescents with delinquent behavior have greater difficulty making rational decisions and show lower emotional intelligence and empathy. Decision-making is a set of complex processes associated with neurobiological, cognitive, emotional, and social factors which help regulate and guide behavior, which could be influenced by emotional intelligence and empathy. A comparative, correlational, and predictive study was conducted to analyze relationships and influence of emotional intelligence and empathy in decision-making styles in adolescent offenders and non-offenders. 808 Colombian adolescents between 14 and 18 years of age participated (50% offenders). The results indicated significant differences in emotional attention, perspective taking, fantasy, empathic concern, vigilance, and hypervigilance. Emotional repair and perspective taking were identified as favoring rational decision-making. Additionally, emotional attention and personal distress were found to influence hypervigilance, buck-passing, and procrastination. The importance of intervening in emotional intelligence and empathy to favor decision-making styles in adolescents is discussed. Los estilos de toma de decisiones en los adolescentes delincuentes y no delincuentes: la influencia de la inteligencia emocional y de la empatía R E S U M E NLa literatura indica que los adolescentes que presentan conductas delictivas tienen mayor dificultad para tomar decisiones racionales y muestran menor inteligencia emocional y empatía. La toma de decisiones es un conjunto de procesos complejos asociados a factores neurobiológicos, cognitivos, emocionales y sociales que ayudan a regular y orientar la conducta, que podría estar influenciada por la inteligencia emocional y la empatía. Se realizó un estudio comparativo, correlacional y predictivo para analizar las relaciones y la influencia de la inteligencia emocional y la empatía en los estilos de toma de decisiones de adolescentes delincuentes y no delincuentes. Participaron 808 adolescentes colombianos entre 14 y 18 años (50% con conducta delictiva). Los resultados indicaron que había diferencias significativas en atención emocional, toma de perspectiva, fantasía, preocupación empática, vigilancia e hipervigilancia. Se observó que la reparación emocional y la toma de perspectiva favorecían la toma de decisiones racional. Además, se observó que la atención emocional y la angustia personal influían en la hipervigilancia, el escaqueo y la procrastinación. Se discute la importancia de intervenir en la inteligencia emocional y la empatía para favorecer los estilos de toma de decisiones en los adolescentes. Palabras clave: Delincuentes juveniles Toma de decisiones Inteligencia emocional EmpatíaThe study of decision-making is complex, as it deals with processes that constantly affect life experience and behavior. Among other aspects, analyzing decision-making implies knowledge of neurobiological mechanisms, the role of learning and memory, and understanding the purpose and analyzing the motivati...

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Section: Emotional Intelligence and Empathy In Offendersmentioning

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Section: Article In Pressmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy

Isaza

Jiménez

Montoya‐Castilla

2021

Anuario De Psicología Jurídica

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“…Beyond antisociality, a variety of criminal behaviours have also been associated with weak empathy; such as violent (Trivedi-Bateman, 2015, 2019Romero-Martinez et al, 2016;Winter et al, 2017), sexual (Hempel et al, 2015), and fraudulent (O'Neill, 2020) offending. Weak empathy is present in offending community samples (Jolliffe & Farrington, 2021d) and within juvenile incarcerated (Llorca-Mestre et al, 2017) and adult incarcerated offending populations (House et al, 2017;Jolliffe & Farrington, 2021d).…”

Section: The Relationship Between Weak Empathy and Antisocial And Criminal Behaviourmentioning

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The optimal application of empathy interventions to reduce antisocial behaviour and crime: a review of the literature

Trivedi‐Bateman

Crook

2021

Psychology, Crime & Law

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In recent decades, the relationship between weak empathy and the development of antisocial and offending behaviours has been well established. In the first review of its kind, this paper outlines the current implementation of empathy intervention programmes in a variety of disciplines. This paper will identify some key agents that are instrumental in empathy development and build a case to suggest that where such traditional sources of empathy development are inadequate, interventions are crucial to bridge the gap. To date, the few offender empathy interventions that have been implemented and assessed heed mixed results by crime type, sample type, gender, and empathy type. Novel, evidence-led recommendations will be made in relation to the timing, content, format, length, and location of future interventions, and the importance of the consideration of baseline empathy and individual differences will be outlined. Deficient empathy must be of central concern to criminal justice agencies and identified and addressed from infancy and throughout the life course. By using a combination of universal programmes with general populations and specific offendertargeted programmes, a holistic approach can be achieved.

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“…Scholars agree that empathy is critical for fathoming people's propensity for crime (Trivedi-Bateman, 2019). A lack of empathy has been found to increase the likelihood of a broad range of antisocial and criminal behaviours, among them violent (Shechtman, 2002;Romero-Martinez et al, 2016), sexual (Hempel et al, 2015;Loinaz et al, 2021) and fraudulent (Craig, 2017;O'Neill, 2020) offending as well as substance abuse (Martinotti et al, 2009;Ferrari et al, 2014) and bullying (Mitsopoulou & Giovazolias, 2015;Van Noorden et al, 2015). Thereby, the magnitude of the empathy effect seems to be contingent on the employed sampling frame and the investigated crime type.…”

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Does Empathy Attenuate the Criminogenic Effect of Low Self-Control in Late Life?

Hirtenlehner

Trivedi‐Bateman

Baier

et al. 2021

International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justi

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The present study investigates whether empathy shapes the criminogenic effect of low self-control in late adulthood. Based on the assumption that the capacity to understand and share the thoughts and emotions of other people moderates the significance of the capability to consider the distant consequences of behaviour on oneself, we posit that poor self-control is less consequential among senior citizens of high empathy. The results of a postal survey of 3,000 randomly selected older adults from Germany indicate that both low trait self-control and weak trait empathy increase offending in advanced age. Furthermore, the findings provide evidence of an interaction according to which the relationship between the risk-taking component of the self-control trait and criminal activity is stronger for older adults characterised by low empathy. Impulsivity, on the other hand, seems to mediate the association of empathy and offending in late life.

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Adolescence, Empathy, and the Gender Gap in Delinquency

Cited by 20 publications

References 92 publications

Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy

Decision-making Styles in Adolescent Offenders and Non-offenders: Effects of Emotional Intelligence and Empathy

The optimal application of empathy interventions to reduce antisocial behaviour and crime: a review of the literature

Does Empathy Attenuate the Criminogenic Effect of Low Self-Control in Late Life?

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