Who tells the truth? Former inmates' self-reported arrests vs. official records

Daylor, Jordan M.; Blalock, Dan V.; Davis, Tess; Klauberg, William; Stuewig, Jeff; Tangney, June P.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2019.04.002

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“…The disaggregated measures tap into secondary research questions on the differential relationships of aspects of PPTS on risk and offending. Although there may be concerns about individuals with higher PPTs potentially misreporting self-reported offending, PPTs were not a significant predictor of the discordance between self-reported arrest and official records in a sample of formerly incarcerated adults (Daylor et al, 2019). The PCL was used in the current study instead of the Youth Psychopathic Traits Inventory scale (YPI; Andershed et al, 2002) as the YPI was measured in follow-up waves (i.e., T2–T11) which presents temporal order concerns.…”

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confidence: 92%

The Role of Arrest Risk Perception Formation in the Association Between Psychopathy and Aggressive Offending

Altikriti

Nedelec

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2021

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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Research on the role of risk perception as a mechanism linking personality traits and behavioral outcomes is limited. The current study assessed a developmental model of the influence of psychopathic traits (PPTs) on the between- and within-individual variation in perceptions of risk and aggressive offending. Multivariate latent growth curve models were used to estimate the role of risk perceptions in the association between PPTs and aggressive offending in a sample of 1,354 adjudicated youths. The results indicated that PPTs influenced between-individual differences in perceptions of risk (β = −.312) and aggressive offending (β = .256), although the effects on within-individual differences suggested some attenuation over time. Additionally, higher PPT scores exhibited an indirect influence on increased aggressive offending through reduced perceptions of risk (β = .049). Implications from this line of research support calls for a developmentally informed juvenile justice system that considers latent personality traits and their long-term effects. Broader implications support individualized rehabilitative programming and tailored responses to offending over the blanket deterrence approach that dominates the current landscape of the American criminal justice system.

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Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 92%

The Role of Arrest Risk Perception Formation in the Association Between Psychopathy and Aggressive Offending

Altikriti

Nedelec

Silver

2021

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

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“…9 The potential drawbacks of our data provide several opportunities for future research in this area. Although the use of offender self-reports in the criminological literature are widespread and have been shown to be accurate (Daylor et al, 2019;Johnson et al, 2005), there may be lingering concerns that veterans, whether due to shame, social desirability bias, or the amount of time passed, would underreport their resistance at arrest. Within our study, we attempted to mitigate recall concerns by controlling for the number of years spent in prison.…”

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Hazardous Duty: Investigating Resistance to Police at the Point of Arrest Among Incarcerated Military Veterans

Morgan

Logan

Arnio

2021

Armed Forces & Society

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The link between military service and crime has been a subject of investigation for several decades. Although research has examined the likelihood of arrest, incarceration, and recidivism across military cohorts, relatively little is known about the circumstances surrounding police contact and suspect behavior at the exact moment of arrest. This is a critical oversight given that what transpires during an arrest can have a marked impact on downstream criminal justice outcomes, including access to diversionary programming like veterans treatment courts. Using a nationally representative survey of prison inmates, this study analyzes veteran and nonveteran self-reports of their arrest controlling for a host of relevant demographic, mental health, and criminal history variables. Findings indicate that veterans are significantly less likely to resist the police at arrest. These results provide further support to the sentiment that military culture and training can have a lasting behavioral influence on those who experience it.

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“…Studies comparing official records and selfreports of offending (mainly arrests) show medium to high agreement between the two methods (e.g., Krohn et al 2013;Piquero et al 2014), although indicating a higher frequency with self-reports of offending (e.g., Maxfield et al 2000;Auty et al 2015). Official records' databases may be incomplete, and this may overestimate the true amount of overreporting (Daylor et al 2019). On a slightly different note, Clark and Tifft (1966) interviewed students with and without a polygraph in order to study the validity of self-reported deviant behavior.…”

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Measurement bias in self-reports of offending: a systematic review of experiments

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Objectives Self-reported offending is one of the primary measurement methods in criminology. In this article, we aimed to systematically review the experimental evidence regarding measurement bias in self-reports of offending. Methods We carried out a systematic search for studies that (a) included a measure of offending, (b) compared self-reported data on offending between different methods, and (c) used an experimental design. Effect sizes were used to summarize the results. Results The 21 pooled experiments provided evidence regarding 18 different types of measurement manipulations which were grouped into three categories, i.e., Modes of administration, Procedures of data collection, and Questionnaire design. An analysis of the effect sizes for each experimental manipulation revealed, on the one hand, that selfreports are reliable across several ways of collecting data and, on the other hand, selfreports are influenced by a wide array of biasing factors. Within these measurement biases, we found that participants' reports of offending are influenced by modes of administration, characteristics of the interviewer, anonymity, setting, bogus pipeline, response format, and size of the questionnaire. Conclusions This review provides evidence that allows us to better understand and improve crime measurements. However, many of the experiments presented in this review are not replicated and additional research is needed to test further aspects of how asking questions may impact participants' answers.

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Who tells the truth? Former inmates' self-reported arrests vs. official records

Cited by 11 publications

References 23 publications

The Role of Arrest Risk Perception Formation in the Association Between Psychopathy and Aggressive Offending

The Role of Arrest Risk Perception Formation in the Association Between Psychopathy and Aggressive Offending

Hazardous Duty: Investigating Resistance to Police at the Point of Arrest Among Incarcerated Military Veterans

Measurement bias in self-reports of offending: a systematic review of experiments

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