Linking emotions to offender decision-making has only recently become of theoretical interest to criminologists, but empirical work in this area has not kept pace, nor has such research examined the linking of emotions to offending in offender-based samples. Recently, Warr outlined regret as one such emotion that may be useful in thinking about offending. Specifically, he argued that regret may be related to discontinuity in offending, or conversely that a lack of remorse may be related to continuity in offending. Results provide support for Warr's hypothesis. Remorse-resistant adolescents incurred a higher number of re-arrests, and remorse-prone adolescents incurred fewer re-arrests, even after controlling for other relevant risk factors. (Publisher abstract modified)
Downloads
Similar Publications
- Testing Reliability of the Computational Age-At-Death Estimation Methods between Five Observers Using Three-Dimensional Image Data of the Pubic Symphysis
- A mixed methods implementation study of juvenile drug treatment courts
- Using Citizen Notification To Interrupt Near-Repeat Residential Burglary Patterns: the Micro-Level Near-Repeat Experiment