To tell or not to tell? Psychopathic traits and response integrity in youth delinquency surveys

Laajasalo, Taina; Aronen, Eeva T.; Saukkonen, Suvi; Salmi, Venla; Aaltonen, Mikko; Kivivuori, Janne

doi:10.1002/cbm.1940

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“…Although the survey source bypasses the problem of possible biased official control (which may create bias from register sources), it has its own shortcomings. First, prior analyses using the same data detected that immigrants were more likely to admit to withholding information (Lehti et al, 2014; Laajasalo et al, 2014). Because of this, the current analysis is a conservative assessment of the level of immigrant crime in relation to native crime.…”

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Correlates of immigrant youth crime in Finland

Salmi

Kivivuori

Aaltonen

2015

European Journal of Criminology

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Differences in the crime involvement of immigrants and the native population have been a major topic in criminology for decades. This interest stems from the fact that immigrants are overrepresented in the crime statistics of many European countries. Our study compares delinquency among native and immigrant youth in Finland. The analysis is based on the 2012 sweep of the Finnish Self-Report Delinquency Study (N = 8914). The results show that several forms of delinquency were more prevalent among immigrants than among native youth. Multivariate analyses indicate that routine activities and parental control were related to the immigrant youths' higher risk of active delinquency. After adjusting for a wide range of background variables, the immigrants' higher risk of delinquency decreased, but remained significant.

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Correlates of immigrant youth crime in Finland

Salmi

Kivivuori

Aaltonen

2015

European Journal of Criminology

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“…Table displays the percentages of the sample whose max report came from each informant, per ICU item. We also will look at differences between composites of all three reports and composites of parent and teacher reports because youth reports may be more susceptible to social desirability effects (Laajasalo, ; Miller & Lynam, ), especially given the content of the measure.…”

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Assessing Callous-Unemotional Traits in Adolescents: Determining Cutoff Scores for the Inventory of Callous and Unemotional Traits

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“…with answer categories: "(1) I already said that I have used it; (2) definitely yes, (3) probably yes; (4) probably not; (5) definitely not". Originally adapted from the ESPAD project [112], this question type has been previously used in individual-level analysis of underreporting offenses in a self-report delinquency survey [113]. Typically, high scores on the openness variable indicate a reluctance to admit socially undesirable behavior, i.e., more likely to lie.…”

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The Role of Parental Maltreatment and Parental Social Control on Self-Reported Violent Offending in Indonesia and the U.S.: Does Gender Make a Difference?

Kokkalera

Marshall

2018

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Abstract:In this article, we examine the role of parental maltreatment and parental social control in violent delinquency in two different countries: Indonesia and the U.S. but we go further by asking if gender makes a difference. We use a sample of Indonesian and U.S. youths from ISRD3 data, a self-reported survey instrument administered across multiple countries. We use logistic regressions to examine the associations between parental maltreatment, parental social control and self-reported violent delinquency and test whether gender and country modifies these associations. We find that both gender and country are significant predictors of violent delinquency. Further, there are differences between Indonesian and U.S. youths in terms of the predictors that are associated with violent delinquent offending. Specifically, parental maltreatment in the form of direct exposure to parental violence is a significant predictor for U.S. youths but not Indonesian youths whereas parental supervision is a significant deterrent of violent offending for both. We also find that girls are more likely to report violent offending than males when indirectly exposed to violence. Thus, our findings reiterate that both gender and context matter.

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To tell or not to tell? Psychopathic traits and response integrity in youth delinquency surveys

Cited by 15 publications

References 29 publications

Correlates of immigrant youth crime in Finland

Correlates of immigrant youth crime in Finland

Assessing Callous-Unemotional Traits in Adolescents: Determining Cutoff Scores for the Inventory of Callous and Unemotional Traits

The Role of Parental Maltreatment and Parental Social Control on Self-Reported Violent Offending in Indonesia and the U.S.: Does Gender Make a Difference?

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