Explaining the Link Between Race and Violence With General Strain Theory

Hoskin, Anthony W.

doi:10.1080/15377938.2011.535471

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“…In addition to asking respondents whether they were male or female (males were scored 1, and females 0, so they serve as the reference group) to examine sensation seeking’s role in mediating the sex–violence link, criminological theory and research suggest several relevant controls for the multivariate analysis among a sample of young adults: age (Farrington, 2019); self-reported race/ethnicity (with whites serving as the reference category) (Hoskin, 2011); current student status (Horney et al , 1995); current marital status (Farrington and West, 1995); adolescent poverty (subjects were asked whether or not their family was poor during their teen years) (McAra and McVie, 2016); parent–child conflict (Ingoldsby et al , 2006); delinquent friends (participants were asked whether or not the majority of their friends were delinquents during their teen years) (Thornberry et al , 1994); and disliking school (Rosenbaum and Lasley, 1990). It should be noted that answers to these questions relied on the subjects’ perceptions , not objective conditions.…”

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Interest in physical danger: does it mediate the relationship between gender and violent offending?

Hoskin

Liftawi

2022

JCP

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Purpose The purpose of this study is to test the hypothesis that the relationship between gender and violent offending is mediated, in part, by an interest in participating in physically dangerous activities. Design/methodology/approach This study makes use of self-report data from a sample of college students and other adults that they recruited to participate in this study to test the hypothesis that having an interest in physically dangerous activities mediates, at least in part, the gender–violence association. Two measures of violent offending are examined: total violent offending and the number of different types of violence committed. Relevant control variables are included in multivariate models, and bootstrapping mediation analysis is also conducted. Findings Net of the effects of controls, an index for interest in physically dangerous activities, significantly predicts both total violence and the number of types of violence committed. Bootstrapping-based mediation analysis produces support for the hypothesis that males have higher rates of interpersonal violence than females, in part, because of a greater desire to engage in physically dangerous activities. Originality/value This study is an important step in understanding why males are more likely to engage in interpersonal violence than females.

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Interest in physical danger: does it mediate the relationship between gender and violent offending?

Hoskin

Liftawi

2022

JCP

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“…Agnew's GST posits that African Americans engage in more acts of offending because they experience more strains that are conducive to crime; for example, broken homes/fatherlessness; lack of job skills/training/low wage jobs; chronic unemployment; reside in disadvantage neighborhoods; criminal victimization; past and present discrimination (e.g., schools, housing, police); and low attachment to schools (Agnew 2006;Hoskins 2011).…”

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An Examination of Inmate Physical Assaults on Jail Correctional Staff: Exploring Inmate-Level and Jail-Level Conditions in the United States

Williams

Porter

2016

Deviant Behavior

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The current study examines individual-level determinants of inmate-on correctional staff assaults, particularly the demographic characteristics of inmates, and the context of structural/environmental characteristics of specific jails. Findings from a series of negative binomial regression models indicate some significant relationships, with additional analyses highlighting the nonlinear nature of the relationship between racial representation and assaults. The findings give credence to both the "lone-wolf" and "gang mentality" perspectives, in that jails with an unbalanced racial composition have higher rates of inmate assaults on correctional staff when groups are both under-and over-represented as a proportion of the jail population. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Violence: Race

Acharya¹,

Doss²

2022

The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication

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Violence and race have a tremendous impact on health outcomes in the United States and around the world. Scholars from a variety of fields, including criminology, sociology, communication, and public health, agree that populations experiencing racial discrimination and stigmatization and/or violence and brutality often also experience health inequalities and poor health outcomes. Race and violence have an impact both at the macro, systemic level, where minorities experience institutional racism, unfair treatment, and police violence, and at the micro, psychosocial level, where cultural and social processes influence individuals' predisposition to violence. The constructs of violence and race are both intricately related to health because they create an inequitable social structure that brings minority individuals closer to harmful situations and decreases their ability and desire to seek medical assistance and voice their concerns. With the rise of the “Black Lives Matter” movement more attention has been given to the topics of race and violence and the ways they impact minority communities. Although some health communication scholars have studied the relationships between race, violence, and health, a great deal more work is needed to better understand structural racism, the resulting violence, communicative erasures, and health inequalities racism creates, and how health communication can mitigate the impact of race and violence on minority health.

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Explaining the Link Between Race and Violence With General Strain Theory

Cited by 8 publications

References 73 publications

Interest in physical danger: does it mediate the relationship between gender and violent offending?

Interest in physical danger: does it mediate the relationship between gender and violent offending?

An Examination of Inmate Physical Assaults on Jail Correctional Staff: Exploring Inmate-Level and Jail-Level Conditions in the United States

Violence: Race

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