An investigation of the role of personality, familial, and peer‐related characteristics in homicidal offending using retrospective data

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2013),"The role of criminal cognitions and personality traits in non-violent recidivism: an empirical investigation within a prison sample",If you would like to write for this, or any other Emerald publication, then please use our Emerald for Authors service information about how to choose which publication to write for and submission guidelines are available for all. Please visit www.emeraldinsight.com/ authors for more information. About Emerald www.emeraldinsight.comEmerald is a global publisher linking research and practice to the benefit of society. The company manages a portfolio of more than 290 journals and over 2,350 books and book series volumes, as well as providing an extensive range of online products and additional customer resources and services.Emerald is both COUNTER 4 and TRANSFER compliant. The organization is a partner of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and also works with Portico and the LOCKSS initiative for digital archive preservation. AbstractPurpose -The current study seeks to assess the predictive utility of personality, family violence, associations with criminal friends, peer rejection, parental attachment, and parental supervision as predictors of homicidal behaviour among a sample of 144 male recidivistic offenders.Design/methodology/approach -This research project utilized a quasi-experimental design with propensity score matching in order to minimize the effect of selection bias. Post-matching binary logistic regression analysis was subsequently conducted in order to determine what factors predict homicidal behaviour.Findings -Post-matching regression results indicated that experience of family violence, psychoticism, and parental attachments were significant predictors of being a homicidal murderer. Originality/value -The findings provide strong empirical support for the important role of early childhood experiences in the prediction of homicidal acts, along with the crucial role of personality (psychoticism). These findings provide additional support for Eysenck's theoretical indications regarding the role of psychoticism in the prediction of violent criminal behaviours.

Latent classes of delinquent behaviour associated with criminal social identity among juvenile offenders in Pakistan

“…Specifically, the results indicate that incarcerated juvenile offenders reporting having more criminal friends were more likely to belong to the 'major delinquency' class; while those reporting higher in-group ties and lower in-group affect were more likely to belong to the 'moderate delinquency' class compared to the baseline class. This finding is consistent with previous research indicating that number of criminal friends and CSI are related to criminal cognitions and behaviour (e.g., Boduszek & Hyland, 2011;Boduszek, Hyland, & Bourke, 2012) and suggests that those working with criminal populations should be cognisant of the role of both criminal friends and CSI in increasing or decreasing an individual's likelihood of more delinquent acts. The results also suggest that for 'moderate delinquents' in prison there may be a greater perceived need to display a strong criminal identity in order to adapt to one's surroundings and to form social relationships with other criminals, whereas, for 'major delinquents' this may not be so important as social relationship with other criminals has already been formed, as indicated by reporting a greater number of criminal friends.…”

Victim, perpetrator, and offense characteristics in filicide and filicide–suicide

“…The increased level of Hostile/Helpless attachment pattern was predictive of child homicide (Barone et al, 2014). It may be that mothers insecurely attached to their children transferred this disrupted pattern of bonding from their childhood relationships (Adshead, 2002;Boduszek, Hyland, & Bourke, 2012). In line with the frustration-aggression hypothesis, the feeling of being threatened or abandoned experienced by such individuals may result in overt aggression (Dollard et al, 1939).…”

Material Parenting: How the Use of Goods in Parenting Fosters Materialism in the Next Generation

“…When retrospective measures meet the qualifications for accuracy, as described above, we believe that they can provide a reasonably reliable representation of earlier subjective experiences. This belief is also justified by the many successful research endeavors that have shown a relationship between retrospective childhood data and adult health (Felitti et al 1998;Loucks et al 2011;Taylor et al 2006) or adult behaviors (Boduszek, Hyland, and Bourke 2012;Easow et al 2008). …”

“…Perhaps the most obvious limitation is that it used a retrospective rather than longitudinal (prospective) design. Although retrospective data have successfully been used in the study of health (Loucks et al 2011;Taylor et al 2011), criminal behavior (Blanchard et al 2002Boduszek et al 2012), educational achievement (Boden, Horwood, and Fergusson 2007), and other areas (Easow et al 2008), it should be used with awareness of its primary limitation-the possibility of random or systematic error in respondents' recall. In this research, we tried to minimize these errors by using the best available methods to reduce recall error.…”