The Relationship Between Law Violation and Depression: An Interactions Analysis*

Coster, Stacy De; Heimer, Karen

doi:10.1111/j.1745-9125.2001.tb00941.x

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“…Multivariate analyses provided similar results; after antisocial behavior such as use of street survival strategies was controlled, there was no statistically significant association between internalizing disorders and postrunaway arrest. As suggested by Coster and Heimer (2001), the significant bivariate associations may be because of common antecedents, such as abuse and neglect at home and use of street survival strategies.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Although past studies have found that major depression is highly associated with violent behavior and crime (Hodgins, 1993;Robins, 1993;Steadman et al, 1998;Stueve & Link, 1997), the precise nature of this relationship has not been explored. Individuals may try to alleviate depression by engaging in illegal acts (Agnew, 1992;Brezina, 1996Brezina, , 2000, or the association could be spurious since depression and law violation may have a common antecedent and result from a similar process (Coster & Heimer, 2001). In contrast, studies have indicated that other internalizing disorders, such as PTSD, are not associated with criminality.…”

Section: Mental Disorder Comorbidity and Criminalitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Postrunaway Arrests Among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents

Chen

Thrane

Whitbeck

et al. 2006

J of Research on Adolesc

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This study examined the associations between lifetime mental disorder, comorbidity, and self‐reported postrunaway arrests among 428 (187 males, 241 females) homeless and runaway youth. The analysis examined the pattern of arrests across five lifetime mental disorders (alcohol abuse, drug abuse, conduct disorder, major depressive episode, and posttraumatic stress disorder). The adolescents, ranging from 16 to 19 years old, were interviewed directly on the streets and in shelters in four Midwestern states using computer‐assisted personal interviewing. Extensive self‐reports of early life history, behaviors since running away from home, and diagnostic interviewing (UM‐CIDI and DISC‐R) were used to estimate possible disorders. There was a high level of postrunaway arrests reported by the youth; more than half were arrested at least once after the initial runaway, with the average of 4.4 times. Consistent with the hypotheses, there were differential associations between individual mental disorders and involvement with the criminal justice system. Only externalizing disorders such as substance abuse and conduct disorder were related to arrest. Street youth with multiple externalizing and internalizing disorders were more likely to be arrested than nondisordered youths.

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Section: Mental Disorder Comorbidity and Criminalitymentioning

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Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Postrunaway Arrests Among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents

Chen

Thrane

Whitbeck

et al. 2006

J of Research on Adolesc

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“…There is also the possibility that both of these unwanted outcomes can feed each other [23,29,30]. Adolescents with co-occurring depression and delinquent behaviors experience…”

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“…In Wolff and Ollendick's [13] review, three main explanations behind the link between depression and delinquency are worth mentioning regarding this problem: shared risk factors, the failure model, and the acting out model. Briefly, the shared risk model suggests that both problems have common sources that give rise to each separately, such as genetic effects [22] or social structural positions and stressful life events [23]. The failure model suggests that early delinquency results in negative social outcomes such as peer rejection or diminished social supports, which in turn result in depression [24].…”

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Depression and Delinquency: A Review of Research

Ozkan¹

2017

Acta Psychopathol

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“…It is noteworthy that the attrition rate over this six-year-span was low (13%) and a comparison of respondents across the waves revealed that loss by demographic variables and delinquency did not compromise the representativeness of the sample. After conducting pairwise deletion of missing data, the final sample for their study included 1,550 subjects and their parents (De Coster & Heimer, 2001). …”

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Role-Taking and Recidivism: A Test of Differential Social Control Theory

Ngo¹,

Paternoster²,

Curran³

et al. 2010

Justice Quarterly

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In 1994, Karen Heimer and Ross Matsueda collaborated and developed Differential Social Control (DSC) theory. Heimer and Matsueda posit that the proximate cause of crime is role-taking which encompasses five major processes: 1) reflected appraisals of self as a rule violator, 2) anti-social attitudes, 3) anticipated disapproval of deviant acts from family and friends, 4) criminal associations, and 5) prior experience with crime and delinquency. Taking these processes together, DSC argues that the likelihood of crime and delinquency increases when an individual believes that others view him as a rule violator, holds anti-social attitudes, anticipates limited disapproval of deviance from family and friends, associates with deviant peers, and has repeatedly solved prior problematic situations using criminal or delinquent behaviors. DSC also posits that more distal factors such as role commitment and structural locations affect crime and delinquency indirectly via role-taking.Unlike other theoretical perspectives also formulated in the 1990s, DSC has received scant theoretical discussion and empirical attention. To date, DSC has only been evaluated in a handful of empirical tests. The primary aim of this dissertation is to expand the body of empirical research assessing DSC. In particular, this dissertation examines DSC's ability to explain recidivism among a sample of adult offenders released from Maryland prisons.Overall, the results generated from this dissertation do not lend support for DSC's ability to account for recidivism. Specifically, the results revealed that only two of the five measures of role-taking, anti-social attitudes and number of prior arrests, were consistent significant predictors of recidivism. The results also indicated that measures of role-commitment were not generally related to recidivism and as a consequence, the hypothesized mediating effects of role-taking on the relationship between role commitment and recidivism by DSC were not supported. The results also showed that with the exception of age, social location measures generally were not related to recidivism and thus, definite statements on the mediating effects of DSC's central concepts on this relationship could not be drawn. ROLE TAKING AND RECIDIVISM: A TEST OF DIFFERENTIAL SOCIAL

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The Relationship Between Law Violation and Depression: An Interactions Analysis*

Cited by 58 publications

References 72 publications

Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Postrunaway Arrests Among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents

Mental Disorders, Comorbidity, and Postrunaway Arrests Among Homeless and Runaway Adolescents

Depression and Delinquency: A Review of Research

Role-Taking and Recidivism: A Test of Differential Social Control Theory

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