Behind Closed Doors: The Role of Risky Lifestyles and Victimization Experiences on Fear of Future Victimization Among South Korean Inmates

Choi, Jaeyong; Dulisse, Brandon

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“…A large body of survey-based work has shown that perceptions of procedural justice are directly and indirectly associated with greater compliance with the law and rules, e.g., [28][29][30]. Moreover, risky lifestyles within the incarceration setting are often illegal activities (e.g., participation in gambling) [31,32]. Accordingly, the argument we advance in this article is two-prong.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Details regarding the rationale and overall design of the study can be found in Yoon [70]. The data we drew on in this article have been used in several empirical studies [31,65,[71][72][73][74], but have not been used to test how risky lifestyles mediate the association between procedural justice and violent misconduct. Table 1 shows the descriptive information of participants.…”

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“…Four questions served as indicators of one's involvement in risky activities. Respondents were asked to indicate how often they have engaged in the following incidents within the previous year: "Possession of prohibited item," "having broken away from the designated area," "having gambled," and "having participated in transaction" (see also [31]). Each item was rated using a four-point Likert-type scale, from 0 (never) to 4 (10 or more times).…”

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Using Structural Equations to Model the Relationships between Procedural Justice, Risky Lifestyles, and Violent Inmate Misconduct

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2020

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Prior research has consistently shown that perceptions of procedural justice promote individuals’ compliance with the law. Several studies have also identified mechanisms that explain the association between perceptions of procedural justice and compliance (e.g., social identity). However, the potential role of risky behaviors as a mediator of the association between procedural justice and compliance remains unexplored. This study examined whether risky behaviors can mediate the relationship between procedural justice and violent inmate misconduct. Data for this study were derived from a sample of 986 incarcerated felons in South Korea. The present study employed structural equation modeling to test how risky lifestyles mediate the association between procedural justice and violent misconduct. The results showed that procedural justice reduced violent inmate misconduct. Additionally, the mediation hypothesis received partial support: the direct effect of procedural justice on violent misconduct was partially mediated by involvement in risky activities. Taken together, the results highlight the importance of the interrelationship between procedural justice, risky lifestyles, and violent misconduct in a prison setting.

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“…Fear of crime, including its many dimensions (see , may also be placed within the L-RAT framework (e.g., Choi & Dulisse, 2019;. However, the way in which various activities may help explain differences in fear of crime can be interpreted quite differently (see e.g., ).…”

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“…The importance of everyday life is emphasized in lifestyle-exposure theory and routine activity theory, as these theories state that victimization is a result of exposure to environmental circumstances favorable to victimization . Although less common, research based on these theories also has examined whether activities from daily life are related to fear of crime (see e.g., Choi & Dulisse, 2019;.…”

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Everyday life, crime, and fear of crime among adolescents and young adults

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Drawing on lifestyle-routine activity theory, this dissertation explores associations between everyday life, crime, and fear of crime among adolescents and young adults. It also examines the operationalisation of the concepts of lifestyle and routine activities, and explores the use of experience methods, via a smartphone application named STUNDA, to collect data about everyday life. Of the four studies conducted, Study I shows that different specific lifestyle measures are of varying relevance for victims, offenders, and victim-offenders, which indicates that no single universal lifestyle feature is of relevance for all outcomes studied. The findings from Study II reveal that spending time with friends in the city-centre is associated with lower levels of fear of crime across months, days, and moments. However, other associations between everyday life variables and fear of crime are inconsistent across these reference periods. Study III, a systematic review of the literature, shows that measures of lifestyle and routine activities differ in the frequency with which they are used in studies on interpersonal victimisation and offending. Illegal activities are often used as lifestyle/routine activity measures in studies on victimisation while unstructured and peer-oriented activities dominate in studies on offending. However, the measures used in the included studies are diverse, which indicates that researchers use a wide range of activities that are intended to measure lifestyle/routine activities. The final paper, Study IV, explores fear of crime in relation to moments of everyday life and finds that specific features of settings, such as being in semi-public and public spaces and on public transport, increase the odds for experiencing fear of crime. The overall conclusions of the studies point to methodological and theoretical directions for future research. First, research in the field of lifestyle-routine activity theory needs to consider specific and potentially different activities when examining victimisation, offending, and the overlap between these two outcomes. Further, fear of crime research must consider different reference periods, such as months, days and moments, since fear may not only be defined as a more stable trait-like phenomenon but also as a momentary and transitory experience in everyday life. The types of measures used to represent everyday life also require consideration, particularly in terms of the inclusion of lifestyle/routine activity measures that are actually related to criminogenic exposure. For theory more specifically, the implications of the findings point to an overall confirmation of the view that exposure to various environmental circumstances is associated with crime and fear of crime. However, across all of the studies conducted, the findings point to potential weaknesses of the theory. In particular, the lack of an elaborated perspective on individual traits and characteristics limits the explanatory scope of lifestyle-routine activity theory. For instance, people with similar lifestyles still vary in terms of their victimisation, offending, and fear of crime, which necessitates the inclusion of additional individual-level factors that could explain these variations. Future research must thus either modify lifestyle-routine activity theory or open up for other theoretical perspectives that provide a more holistic approach to understanding the role of both environ-mental and individual factors when studying everyday life, crime, and fear of crime.

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Mapping and Explaining Victimisation Among Prisoners in Flanders

Goossens,

Daems

2024

Palgrave Studies in Victims and Victimology

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Behind Closed Doors: The Role of Risky Lifestyles and Victimization Experiences on Fear of Future Victimization Among South Korean Inmates

Cited by 7 publications

References 97 publications

Using Structural Equations to Model the Relationships between Procedural Justice, Risky Lifestyles, and Violent Inmate Misconduct

Using Structural Equations to Model the Relationships between Procedural Justice, Risky Lifestyles, and Violent Inmate Misconduct

Everyday life, crime, and fear of crime among adolescents and young adults

Mapping and Explaining Victimisation Among Prisoners in Flanders

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