AFDC to TANF: The Effects of Welfare Reform on Instrumental and Expressive Crimes

Burek, Melissa W.

doi:10.1080/14786010600764542

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“…Instrumental crimes (Burek 2006;Ekblom 1997) focus on achieving a goal where the criminal act is viewed as a means to an end. For example, an offender may perpetrate a mugging with the intention of acquiring money.…”

Section: Research Area 2: Expressive and Instrumental Motives And Detmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Expressive crimes often involve frustration, anger, rage, and despair. Unlike instrumental offenses, the actual commission is considered an end in itself (Burek 2006;Ekblom 1997) and there is no additional goal to be met. Cases of aggravated assault, for example, may involve the resolution of anger issues.…”

Section: Research Area 2: Expressive and Instrumental Motives And Detmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Beyond Deterrence: An Expanded View of Employee Computer Abuse

Willison

Warkentin

2013

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351

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Whether motivated by greed, disgruntlement, or other psychological processes, this act has the greatest potential for loss and damage to the employer. We argue the focus must include not only the act and its immediate antecedents of intention (to commit computer abuse) and deterrence (of the crime), but also phenomena which temporally precede these areas. Specifically, we assert the need to consider the thought processes of the potential offender and how these are influenced by the organizational context, prior to deterrence. We believe the interplay between thought processes and this context may significantly impact the efficacy of IS security controls, specifically deterrence safeguards. Through this focus, we extend the Straub and Welke (1998) security action cycle framework and propose three areas worthy of empirical investigation-techniques of neutralization (rationalization), expressive/instrumental criminal motivations, and disgruntlement as a result of perceptions of organizational injustice-and propose questions for future research in these areas.

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Section: Research Area 2: Expressive and Instrumental Motives And Detmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Research Area 2: Expressive and Instrumental Motives And Detmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Deterrence: An Expanded View of Employee Computer Abuse

Willison

Warkentin

2013

MISQ

351

268

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“…The main argument is that welfare payments to disadvantaged individuals change their time allocation between legal and illegal activities favoring the former in detriment of the latter. Zhang (1997) In another provocative paper, Burek (2006) …”

Section: Economic Conditions Criminal Activity and Welfare Spendingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Does poverty relief spending reduce crime? Evidence from Argentina

Meloni¹

2014

International Review of Law and Economics

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“…In addition to kinship foster care-related financial assistance, some kinship families are eligible for financial assistance through TANF, a federal program to help low-income families to achieve self-sufficiency (Office of Family Assistance, 2017). TANF replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (ADFC) in 1996 (Burek, 2006). Under AFDC, the federal government started to provide financial support for kinship caregivers (Anderson, 2006).…”

Section: Tanfmentioning

confidence: 99%