TY - JOUR
T1 - Adverse Neighborhood Conditions and Sanction Risk Perceptions
T2 - Using SEM to Examine Direct and Indirect Effects
AU - Kim, Byungbae
AU - Pratt, Travis C.
AU - Wallace, Danielle
PY - 2014/9
Y1 - 2014/9
N2 - Objectives: The present study examines how individuals' sanction risk perceptions are shaped by neighborhood context. Methods: Using structural equation modeling on data from waves 6 and 7 of the National Youth Survey, we assess the direct and indirect relationships between adverse neighborhood conditions and two dimensions of sanction risk perceptions: the certainty of punishment and perceived shame. In addition, the role of shame as a mediator between neighborhood context and certainty of punishment is also investigated. Results: The results indicate that adverse neighborhood conditions indirectly affect both forms of sanction risk perceptions, and additional results show that perceived shame fully mediates the effect of neighborhood conditions on perceptions of the certainty of punishment. Conclusions: The perceptual deterrence/rational choice perspective will need to be revised to accommodate more explicitly the role of neighborhood context in shaping sanction risk perceptions.
AB - Objectives: The present study examines how individuals' sanction risk perceptions are shaped by neighborhood context. Methods: Using structural equation modeling on data from waves 6 and 7 of the National Youth Survey, we assess the direct and indirect relationships between adverse neighborhood conditions and two dimensions of sanction risk perceptions: the certainty of punishment and perceived shame. In addition, the role of shame as a mediator between neighborhood context and certainty of punishment is also investigated. Results: The results indicate that adverse neighborhood conditions indirectly affect both forms of sanction risk perceptions, and additional results show that perceived shame fully mediates the effect of neighborhood conditions on perceptions of the certainty of punishment. Conclusions: The perceptual deterrence/rational choice perspective will need to be revised to accommodate more explicitly the role of neighborhood context in shaping sanction risk perceptions.
KW - Adverse neighborhood conditions
KW - Sanction risk perceptions
KW - Structural equation modeling
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U2 - 10.1007/s10940-013-9212-3
DO - 10.1007/s10940-013-9212-3
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84906096961
SN - 0748-4518
VL - 30
SP - 505
EP - 526
JO - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
JF - Journal of Quantitative Criminology
IS - 3
ER -