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INTRODUCTION
Hagan and McCarthy's theoretical and empirical work in "Mean
Streets" remains a significant addition to the criminological literature
on homeless youth and street crime. However, while their work remains
noteworthy their integrated social capital theory of crime could be improved
by replacing Hirschi's control with John Bowlby's attachment theory. Hirschi's
control theory emanated from John Bowlby's attachment theory and the latter
theory offers a more succinct model of parent-child attachment. This theory
offers an improved understanding of how reintegrative shaming leads to
desistance from crime through the development of later attachment relationships
thus increasing social capital. This work attempts to meet Hagan and McCarthy's
call for additional research aimed at integrating the principles of several
theoretical perspectives in order to create improved social structural
solutions to the delinquency problem.
Bowlby's Attachment Theory
Bowlby's attachment theory posits that meeting the physical and psychological
needs of the child through the first two years of life provides the template
for all future relationships through the development of a secure attachment
(Bowlby 1969, 1988; Horner, 1991; Katz, 1999; Katz, 2000; Bowlby 1988:11;
Isabelle, Belsky, and von Eye 1989; Ainsworth, Walters and Wall, 1978;
Greenberg, Cicchetti and Cummings 1992, Howing, Wodarski, Kurtz, and Gaudin
1993; Jacobson, Huss, Fendrich 1997; Moffitt 1997). This attachment is
characterized by parents who are able to meet the physical and psychological
needs of the child resulting in the development of the child's capacity
for empathy (Bowlby 1988: 27). If the child's needs are not met, the result
is an insecure attachment and an inability to exhibit empathy linked to
the capacity for later criminal behavior, particularly violent behavior
(Richardson, Hammock, Smith, Gardner 1994; Ken-Ichi, and Mukai 1993; Born,
Chevalier and Humblet 1997; Raine, Brennan, and Mednick 1997; Ward et
al. 1997). Recent work also substantiates a relationship between early
insecure attachments and the formation of later romantic attachment relationships
characterized by violence (Bartholomew and Horowitz 1991; Griffin and
Bartholomew 1991).
Interpersonal relationships of those with insecure attachment styles are
also characterized by negative emotions (Ward et al. 1997). This insecure
attachment in conjunction with the experience of childhood abuse produces
negative emotions such as anger and shame (Dutton, Saunders, Starzomski,
and Bartholomew 1994; Piquero and Sealock 2000; Katz 2000). These powerful
negative feelings disrupt the ability to evince empathy (Roberts and Strayer
1996). Thus an individual's initial poor attachment with their primary
caregiver(s) may have been their first "negative relationship with
another person", the building block of Agnew's revised strain theory
(Agnew 1992; Agnew 1997; Agnew 2001; Agnew, et al. 2002).
Strain Theory
A variety of studies testing revised strain theory provide substantial
support for its tenets (Agnew and White 1992; Paternoster and Mazerolle
1994; Brezina 1996, 1998; Hoffman and Su 1997; Agnew and Brezina 1997;
Broidy and Agnew 1997; Hoffman and Su 1997; Piquero and Sealock 2000;
Brezina 1999; Mazerolle and Piquero 1997; Katz 2000; Agnew, Brezina, Wright,
and Cullen 2002). Strain theory posits that stressful events in the family
or neighborhood lead to negative emotions and subsequent delinquency,
particularly if normative coping resources, like parental and peer support,
are unavailable (Hoffman and Su 1997; Brezina 1996; Agnew and Brezina
1997; Mazerolle 1998). Most of this body of research reveals that strain
explains delinquency, although it better explains delinquency as a coping
response among males rather than among females (Katz 2000; Brezina, 1999;
Agnew et. al. 2002; Broidy 2001). Only one recent test of Agnew's perspective
provides limited support for its basic tenets (Mazerolle, et. al. 2000).
This weak test is the result of problems with regard to the cross-sectional
nature of the study; the conservative indicators of strain and anger used,
the low risk population studied, and the failure to take into account
severe forms of strain such as child maltreatment or other serious family
problems. Longitudinal tests of revised strain theory are better able
to link early childhood maltreatment to the development of criminal behavior
in adolescence and adulthood among both men and women (Widom and White
1997; Baskin and Sommers 1998; Dembo, Williams, Schmeidle et al. 1992;
Dembo, Williams, Worthke, Scheidler, and Brown 1992; Weeks and Widom 1998;
Widom 1996; Widom and Ames 1994; Wolf Harlow 1999; Katz 2000; Piquero
and Sealock 2000; Agnew 1997). Recent theoretical work in revised strain
theory also calls for further elaboration of the theory, however none
of these works take into account Hagan and McCarthy's social capital theory
of crime nor Bowlby's attachment theory (Brezina 2000; Agnew 2001). Agnew's
reformulation makes it clear that specific personality dimensions, such
as constraint or self-control and negative emotionality, condition the
effects of strain on delinquency (Agnew et al. 2002). Further, a variety
of research reflects that some of these personality dimensions are the
product of the parent-child attachment (see Review by Katz 2000). Thus,
strain theory can benefit from integrating Bowlby's attachment theory.
Another problem with the extant work on strain theory is the middle class
background of most samples. However, a variety of other research reflects
that it is among people embedded in extreme poverty within their family
and neighborhood contexts who are least likely to have conventional coping
strategies available to middle class respondents. Such youths' lives are
characterized by hopelessness engendered by the absence of community attachments,
by parental abandonment, or by violence and addiction. They cope by running
away and becoming delinquent (Hagan and McCarthy 1997, Coulton, Korbin,
Su and Chow 1995; Flowers 2001). These are normative responses to such
conditions. In addition, police and criminal justice responses to these
youth are characterized as stigmatizing and shaming, thus further disallowing
the development of effective coping responses or constraints (Sommers
and Baskin 1998; Pettiway 1997; Anderson 1997; Agnew et. al. 2002; Brezina,
2000; Hagan and McCarthy 1997). Therefore, although Agnew's recent more
parsimonious version of general strain theory remains noteworthy, only
Hagan and McCarthy's integrated theory substantiates the value of a model
that integrates revised strain theory, control theory, and reintegrative
shaming taking into account the effect of institutional responses to criminal
behavior, especially among already severely strained and economically
deprived populations (Agnew 1999; Hagan and McCarthy 1997).
Social Capital Theory and Reintegrative Shaming
Hagan and McCarthy's model accounts for institutionalized responses in
dealing with runaway street youth (Hagan and McCarthy 1997). One punitive
and shaming method in Vancouver created more strain for already strained
youth, while Toronto's social welfare and community assistance programs
led street youth towards desistance while re-integrating them into the
community (Hagan and McCarthy 1997).
Key to understanding this theory is that these street youth ran away from
home in order to escape on-going strain that included maltreatment and
addiction. These severe strains coupled with the surplus worker status
of many of their parents created more shame. They cite Scheff's 1988 work
on shame suggesting that it involves painful feelings of foolishness;
feeling stupid, ridiculous, inadequate, defective, incompetent, awkward,
exposed, vulnerable, and insecure; and having low self esteem (Hagan and
McCarthy 1997, p. 194). Similarly, Stephen Tibbetts' 1997 review of the
emotions literature reveals that shame is "a self conscious emotion
involving feelings of worthlessness or weakness that result from global
evaluations of self-concept regarding discrepancies between one's perceptions
of self and ideal images of self" (p. 234-235). This process of disintegrative
shaming processes result in these types of shame (Braithwaite 1989). But
shame is not always deleterious if it emanates from reintegrative shaming.
Thus, no permanent loss in self-esteem will result from integrative shaming
while disintegrative shaming will result in a permanent loss of self-esteem.
Integrative shaming is a valuable child rearing practice but works only
in the hands of a "responsible loving parent". In families where
punishment occurs outside the bond of nurturing, encouragement and love,
disintegrative shaming results (Braithwaite 1989, p. 56). Clearly, these
ideas are congruent with Bowlby's concept of the secure attachment.
Braithwaite argues that reintegrative shaming, made possible by the parent-child
bond or secure attachment, is what "makes serious crime unthinkable
to most of us" (Braithwaite, 1989 p. 71). This unthinkableness is
"a manifestation of our conscious or superego, or whatever we want
to call it depending upon our psychological theoretical preferences"
(Braithwaite 1989, p. 71). He later argues that "when we feel the
pangs of conscience, we take the role of the other". This paper argues
that this process occurring within the conscience is empathic responsiveness.
Thus a child's secure attachment is the result of integrative shaming
used in the process of attending to and meeting the child's emotional
and physical needs. The result is the child's capacity for empathy and
normative non-delinquent behavior.
However, empathy may be developed later as the result of quality attachments
to significant others, marriage, work, or fatherhood. These relationships
act to repair the damage from earlier insecure attachments through reintegrative
shaming techniques thus increasing social capital. This increase in social
capital leads to desistance from crime and increases the capacity for
empathy except among substance abusers (Sampson and Laub 1993; Katz 1999;
Katz 2000; Farrall and Bowling 1999; Laub, Nagin, and Sampson 1998; Neilson,
1999; Farrington and West, 1995; Baskin and Sommers 1998; Neilson 1999).
Sampson and Laub's empirical work and Hagan and McCarthy's research illustrates
the utility of using Coleman's concept of social capital in explaining
this path towards desistance. Coleman's concept is best defined by Rosenfeld
and Messner who cite Coleman's 1990 book on social theory, social capital
is "embodied in the relations among persons . . . is created when
the relations among persons change in ways that facilitate action . .
. and inheres in social relationships that enable individuals to cooperate
with one another to realize goals" (Rosenfeld and Messner 2001 p.
2, citing Coleman 1990, p. 302-304). Thus early secure attachment used
in conjunction with reintegrative parental shaming techniques develops
the capacity for empathy. Among those insecurely attached, later quality
attachments to work, spouses, becoming a father, or being the recipient
of progressive social welfare programming that uses the techniques of
reintegrative shaming will lead to desistance. This re-examination of
the integrated social capital theory replaces control theory with Bowlby's
attachment theory and aims to re-examine these tenets using a recently
collected sample of American youth.
Hypotheses:
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- Youth who have been arrested or confined will experience more
shame than youth who have not been arrested or confined.
- Youth with poorer attachments to their parents will also experience
higher levels of shame.
- Youth with higher levels of shame will be more likely to engage
in violent behavior and substance abuse.
- Youth with secure attachments to work or parents, and those
experiencing reintegrative shaming through progressive social
welfare programming will exhibit less shame and aggressive behavior.
However, substance abusers will be least likely to desist as the
result of these factors.
- Youth who run away from home (higher levels of strain) will
exhibit higher levels of shame and will be more likely to engage
in violence and substance abuse.
- Poor youth are more likely to experience higher levels of shame.
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RESEARCH METHODS
Data Set
The data set used is the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS:88).
NELS:88 is a panel study of eighth graders initially interviewed in 1988.
Wave two was collected in 1990, and wave three was collected in 1992 when
most of the youth were seniors in high school. Wave four was collected
in 1994 when most of the youth were twenty years of age (not included
in this analysis). The NELS:88 is stratified sample based upon the random
selection of one thousand from a universe file of approximately forty
thousand public and private schools (excluding the Bureau of Indian Affairs
schools, special education schools for disabled children, area vocational
schools, or schools for dependents of U.S. personnel stationed overseas).
These one thousand schools include only those schools that agreed to participate
in the panel study. Complete eighth grade rosters were created for each
school, and twenty-four students were randomly selected from each list.
After these initial students were selected, the remainder of the students
on the rosters were grouped by race and ethnicity. Two to three Asian
and Hispanic students were then selected from each school. Prior to the
second wave, it was discovered that school principals and head masters
had failed to place some students (allegedly disabled students) on their
school rosters. In the follow-up years the Department of Education re-sampled
from this group of youth. These base year ineligible students consisted
of about five percent of the original sample.
Approximately 25,000 students from 1,000 schools were initially sampled
in 1988. By the tenth grade most youth had moved from these one thousand
middle schools to over five thousand high schools. Thus, high schools
that contained ten or fewer 1988 NELS students were only sub-sampled during
the second and third waves. The resulting 1992 sample was reduced to 14,915
students. Sample weights were utilized in order to constrain the sample
to become representative of the general population.
While it is recognized that using a student sample is contrary to Hagan
and McCarthy's objectives as street criminologists, this data set provides
an opportunity to examine many of the issues examined in their work with
a unique data set. For example, this data set provides current information
about United States adolescents from the 90's. Moreover, the NELS: 88
provides information with regard to whether or not these youth have ever
run away, been arrested, been confined in a juvenile facility, or engaged
in violent delinquency. Parent interviews were also conducted in the base
year and are included in this analysis. Appendix one illustrates the coding
for each of the independent and dependent variables as well as the factor
loadings among variables used for each scale in the analysis. Therefore
the following discussion of coding is somewhat abbreviated and readers
should examine the appendix for more detailed information.
Dependent Variables
The primary dependent variables in this analysis include shame, involvement
in aggressive behavior, and substance abuse. Two shame scales were developed
from indicators of shame measured at wave one and wave three (see Appendix
one). Four variables were found to load best onto this dimension reflecting
the definitions provided previously. Principle components factor analysis
reflects that each item loaded well onto the scale. Cronbach's alpha shows
strong reliability for each scale. Wave one Cronbach's alpha was .949.
Alpha reliability for wave three was .785.
Aggressive behavior is measured at waves one, two and three. Fighting
at school in the base year was transformed into a dummy variable, with
those youth involved in one or more fights coded as a one and all others
coded as zeros. Only twenty-two percent of youth were involved in fights
at school in the base year. Fighting at school in wave two was also transformed
into a similarly coded dummy variable. Approximately sixteen percent of
youth engaged in fighting at school at wave two. Finally, wave three fighting
measured fighting to or from school. This was coded from zero to two,
with higher scores reflecting more frequent fights either going to or
coming from school. By wave three approximately eight percent of youth
engaged in this type of aggressive behavior to or from school.
Since substance abuse characterized the lives of those studied in both
Hagan and McCarthy's and Sampson and Laub's work, substance abuse is accounted
for here. Both alcohol and illicit substance abuse are measured by several
scales composed of questionnaire items gathered both in wave two and three.
The frequency of substance abuse among youth in the base year was too
small to be developed into a scale. Initially, all wave two and wave three
substance abuse variables were examined to determine the validity and
reliability of a general scale. However, separate substances did not load
well together. The items that continued to load together were cocaine
use variables, marijuana use variables, and alcohol use variables. Therefore,
three separate wave two and wave three scales were constructed. Wave two
marijuana abuse was measured by two variables reflecting frequency of
use over the last year and the last thirty days. These items loaded well
onto one dimension and had a high alpha reliability (alpha=.839). The
wave two-alcohol abuse scale consisted of two variables. One measured
the frequency that the youth drank five or more drinks in a row, and the
second measured the frequency of use of alcohol in the last thirty days.
These two variables loaded well and had a good alpha reliability (alpha=.762).
The wave two cocaine use scale also consisted of two variables. These
variables measure the frequency of use over the last thirty days and over
the last year. These two variables loaded well onto one dimension and
had a good alpha reliability (alpha=.734). Multicolinearity among the
substance abuse scales was not problematic as none of the correlation
coefficients were above .500.
The wave three alcohol abuse scale consists of three variables that loaded
well together with an alpha reliability of .655. One variable measures
the frequency of being under the influence of alcohol over the last year.
A second variable measures the frequency of use of five or more drinks
in a row in the last two weeks. The last variable measured the frequency
of use of alcohol over the last year. The wave three-marijuana scale consisted
of two variables. One variable measured the frequency of marijuana use
over the last month. The second variable measured the frequency of being
under the influence of marijuana on the school grounds since the beginning
of the school year. These items loaded well together and had an alpha
reliability of .785. The cocaine wave three scale consisted of two variables.
These variables measured the frequency of cocaine use over the last year
and over the last thirty days. These items loaded well together and exhibit
high reliability (alpha=.842).
Independent Variables
While the NELS:88 data set contains no variables accounting for severe
family strain in the form of child maltreatment, family alcoholism or
addiction, several variables are available to use as indicators of family
strain. At waves two and three youth were asked if they had run away from
home sometime in the last two years. Hagan and McCarthy's research as
well as other work shows that youth who run away from home are often leaving
abusive and chaotic family situations, thus this is a reliable indicator
for severe childhood maltreatment. Approximately five percent of students
reported having run away sometime in the last two years by wave three
and five percent in wave two.
Several indicators of disintegrative shaming, such as measures of arrest
and juvenile detention are available in this data set. Frequency of arrest
is measured at wave two and three (see Appendix one). Additionally, the
frequency of being held in a detention center at wave three is also available
(see Appendix one). An indicator of more progressive juvenile justice
processing or more reintegrative shaming is having been court ordered
to complete volunteer work. Finally, one additional indicator of reintegrative
shaming is the youth's presence in a dropout prevention program. Again,
this is viewed as a progressive attempt to intervene in the lives of high-risk
youth to prevent later delinquency.
Since Hagan and McCarthy's work parallels the work of Laub and Sampson
with regard to the notion that increases in social capital act to change
behavior or decrease shame and lead to desistance, this test also includes
several employment indicators. While quality job attachment remains an
ideal measure, no such variable exists in this data set. Thus the number
of hours worked within the formal economy is taken into account both during
wave two and wave three (see Appendix one).
Several indicators of attachment to parents are utilized here. The primary
indicator for attachment measures the youth's belief that he or she has
the trust of his or her parents. Thus, positive responses reflect a secure
attachment style. Secondly, youth were asked in the base year if parents
limited the amount of time the youth spent with friends. Thus, higher
scores represent parental control or limit setting. The final indicator
measures parents' belief that the child has emotional problems. It is
assumed that parents who failed to develop this initial attachment to
the child might be more likely to report this. Finally, a key element
of Agnew's revised strain theory that accounts for certain personality
traits that constrain delinquent coping was also used. One scale was developed
consisting of four variables at the base year as an indicator for high
self-esteem (see Appendix one). Factor loadings represent one dimension
and the alpha reliability was .728. Conversely, a second scale was developed
using the same four variables from the third wave but measured in the
opposite direction as an indicator for low self-esteem. Again, the factor
loadings for this scale were good with an alpha reliability of .815.
Control Variables
Responses to juvenile delinquency are processed differently in rural versus
more urban areas. Therefore, a control variable will be used with a one
representing rural, two representing suburban, and three representing
urban. Moreover, while inner city youth in America have exhibited violent
behavior at school for some time, the recent spate of more serious rural
and suburban school violence and the evidence with regard to bullying
across all grades and types of communities warrants accounting for degree
of urbanity. The youth's gender is also used as a control variable; females
were coded as ones and males as zeros. Forty-five percent of the youth
were males and forty-eight percent were females. Approximately eight percent
of the sample was missing data on gender. Race was also used as a control
variable. Race was transformed into a variety of separate dichotomous
dummy variables in which whites were compared to all other groups, Blacks
were compared to all other groups, and Hispanics were compared to all
other racial groups, American Indians were compared to all other groups,
and Asians and Pacific Islanders were compared to all other groups. Each
separate racial or ethnic group was coded as one with all other groups
coded as zeroes, thus five separate dummy race variables are utilized.
The dummy variable representing whites compared to all others was multicolinear
with the other dummy race variables. Therefore, the race variable of white
was examined in a separate equation while the remaining race variables
were used in the same models. Ten percent of the sample was African American,
twelve percent were Hispanic, six percent were Asian or Pacific Islanders,
one percent of the sample was Native American, and sixty-two percent of
the sample was white.
RESULTS
Shame
Shame at waves one and three were regressed onto all the independent variables
and control variables using ordinary least squares regression. In these
early models, shame was best predicted by self-esteem in the base year.
High self esteem had a significant negative effect on high shame at wave
one (see Table 1). Similarly, low self-esteem at wave three had a significant
positive effect on high shame at wave three. Consistent with hypothesis
two, two indicators of early attachment significantly decreased shame.
Youth who believe that their parents trusted them were significantly less
likely to experience shame. Similarly, youth whose parents reported emotional
problems were significantly more likely to experience high shame at wave
one. Although no such effects appeared on wave three shame, these indicators
of attachment indirectly affect shame at wave three through the significant
effect of shame at wave one. Thus youth with secure attachments to parents
are less likely to experience high levels of shame and are more likely
to have higher levels of self-esteem. This supports the integrated social
capital theory of crime using revised strain theory and Bowlby's attachment
theory. Only one indicator of secure attachment failed to demonstrate
the expected effect, parents' limits on time spent with friends. Contrary
to expectations, this variable significantly increased shame at wave one.
This indicator may in fact measure more authoritarian or rigid and controlling
parenting. Controlling time with friends to a great extent could also
be indicative of a parenting style more reflective of disintegrative shaming
or a highly punitive parenting style.
Congruent with hypothesis five, youth who ran away from
home at wave two were significantly more likely to report higher levels
of shame at wave three. This replicates Hagan and McCarthy's findings
that youth who run-away from home experience high levels of shame. Recall
that here running away from home is an indicator of severe family strain.
Other important effects include gender and race. At wave one only females
were significantly more likely to experience shame. But at wave three
only males were significantly more likely to experience shame. Moreover
at waves one and three whites were significantly less likely to report
high shame (see Tables 1and 2). However, at wave three, African Americans
and Asian Americans were significantly more likely to experience shame
than other racial or ethnic groups. These gender and racial differences
appear to result from the inclusion of arrest, an indicator of disintegrative
shaming. As delineated in hypothesis one, arrest at wave two and three
significantly increase shame at wave three. The fact that males and some
youth of color are more likely to experience shame after including this
indicator of disintegrative shaming, illustrates that they may be more
likely to be arrested, not necessarily more likely to commit crime. Another
possible interpretation is that these youth are more likely to experience
the unique disintegrative effects of arrest. Youth from families with
high incomes were least likely to experience shame at wave one or three.
This is congruent with hypothesis six and also replicates the findings
of Hagan and McCarthy that class protects people from social structural
levels of shame. Twenty-seven percent of the variance in wave one shame
was explained using this model (see Table 1). There was little variation
in the r-square among the separate equation containing the other indicators
of race in wave or three. At wave three, thirty six percent of the variance
was explained in shame (see Table 2).
Violence
Regressions on violence and substance abuse will be discussed separately.
However, it should be noted that a variety of research has shown that
substance abusers, particularly alcohol abusers, frequently engage in
aggressive behavior. Further, while mounting evidence reveals that the
relationship between these behaviors is reciprocal, evidence also clearly
illustrates that early substance abusers follow a different pathway towards
crime than that of those who begin involvement in violent behavior in
early childhood (see Katz 2000b for review). These reciprocal effects
will be briefly discussed in the conclusions section, but a thorough discussion
of these relationships and these pathways is beyond the scope of this
paper.
Logistic regression analysis was used to explain fighting at wave one
and two. Ordinary least squares regression analysis was conducted to explain
fighting at wave three. Thus, the effects shown in tables one and two
on fighting at waves one and two are unstandardized betas. Fighting at
wave one does not include the arrest variable or the running away variable.
The best predictors of wave one fighting include the indicators of attachment
and shame, each in the expected direction. The indicators of secure attachment,
parents trust in youth and parents' limiting time with youth significantly
decreased involvement in fighting (see Table 1). The indicator of insecure
attachment, parents belief that the youth has emotional problems, significantly
increased fighting at wave one. These findings provide partial support
for hypothesis four. This also supports using Bowlby's attachment theory
within Hagan and McCarthy's integrative social capital theory to explain
aggressive behavior. Youth reporting higher levels of shame were significantly
more likely to engage in fighting at wave one. This provides partial support
for hypothesis three and further support for the integrated theoretical
model. Finally, females and youth from wealthy families were significantly
less likely to report engaging in fighting at school by wave one. The
Chi-Square statistic indicates that the data fit the model well and nine
percent of the variance in fighting is explained using this model.
In the model for racial and ethnic minorities, the same variables that
were significant among whites were also significant here. However, only
African American and Native American males were significantly more likely
to report fighting at school at wave one. Additionally, Asian Americans
were significantly less likely to report fighting at school. In this model,
youth from urban areas were less likely to engage in fighting but this
effect only approached standard levels of significance. Similar to the
above model, the chi-square remains significant, and approximately nine
percent of the variance is explained.
The regression on fighting at wave two includes indicators of both reintegrative
shaming and disintegrative shaming (see Table 1). As expected, shame at
wave one continues to significantly increase fighting, but the effect
is weaker. One interpretation may be that the reintegrative shaming variable
may be demonstrating the expected effect, through affecting shame. However,
it is not possible to disentangle this effect from the effect of arrest,
since arrest and an indicator of disintegrative shaming are in the same
model here. Although, contrary to hypothesis four, the disintegrative
shaming indicator or the attachment indicator had no effect on fighting.
Therefore, in the regression on fighting at wave three arrest and disintegrative
shaming indicators will be included in separate equations. Also consistent
with the previous models, running away from home at wave two significantly
increases involvement in fighting at school in wave two. This provides
further support for hypothesis five. Arrest at wave two significantly
increases fighting at wave two. Again the effect of class remains significant
with youth from wealthier families being significantly less likely to
report engaging in aggressive behavior. While whites were significantly
less likely to engage in aggressive behavior, African Americans, Hispanic,
and Native American males were significantly more likely to report involvement
in fighting. Asian Americans were less likely to engage in fighting, but
this effect only approached significance. Although it is beyond the scope
of this paper to discuss these effects thoroughly, it should be noted
that alcohol abuse at wave two significantly increases fighting at wave
two. Both the minority and white regression models show significant chi-squares.
However, the size of the chi-square varies by race as does the Cox and
Snell r-square. The model for whites explains more variance in fighting
at approximately thirteen percent, while the chi-square statistic is larger
(it should be recalled that a smaller chi-square reflects a better fit
of the model). Conversely, minority model chi-square is smaller, but so
is the r-square explaining about ten percent of the variance in aggressive
behavior.
Separate regression models on wave three fighting to and from school were
used to explore the differential effects of arrest compared to the effects
of reintegrative shaming. The first equation in Table 2 is the model without
the reintegrative shaming variables. While wave one shame has no affect
on fighting at wave three, wave three shame significantly increases fighting,
again supporting hypothesis three. Now only one indicator of secure attachment
affects fighting and it is in the opposite direction than expected. Youth
with parents who believed that the child had emotional problems were significantly
less likely to engage in fighting. This effect may be related to the aging
of the sample and the differentiation of gendered responses to insecure
attachment. That is females may be significantly less likely to act out
aggressively at wave three as the result of an insecure attachment, but
rather develop a variety of other kinds of problems (Broidy 2001; Katz
2000a and b). Additionally, these changes in the significance and direction
of the indicators of attachment may be the result of capturing their effects
indirectly through their previous effects on fighting at wave one and
two. As other research illustrates, early involvement in fighting predicts
later involvement in fighting. Again, as outlined in hypothesis five,
youth who have run away from home, or experienced more severe strain,
were significantly more likely to engage in aggressiveness. Thus youth
who experience severe strain within their families, as expected, are more
likely to engage in aggressive behavior. Also as expected, arrest at wave
three significantly increases fighting at wave three.
As in earlier regressions on fighting demonstrate, whites and Asian American
males are significantly less likely to engage in fighting, while African
American and Hispanic males are significantly more likely to engage in
fighting. Also, youth from wealthier families are significantly less likely
to report engaging in fighting.
Wave two and three alcohol abuse, as well as wave three cocaine abuse
significantly increases aggressiveness at wave three. However, wave three
marijuana abuse and wave three cocaine abuse significantly decrease involvement
in aggressiveness. It is clear from examining these effects and looking
at the regressions on substance abuse that violence and some forms of
substance abuse have reciprocal effects. These pathways must be better
understood in order to develop improved methods of preventing the relationship
between violence and substance abuse. Again, it is beyond the scope of
this paper to accomplish this goal here. Regression models for both whites
and minority members reflect that approximately seventeen percent of the
variance in aggressiveness at wave three is explained in this model.
Substance Abuse
The regression on wave two-alcohol abuse includes indicators of both reintegrative
shaming and disintegrative shaming, as well as the same independent variables
and control variables from previous models explaining aggressive behavior.
Moreover, aggressive behavior is also included as a predictor (see Table
2). However, the initial regressions on wave three substance abuse scales
exclude the reintegrative shaming and social capital indicators, while
they are included in Table 3 regression models. The goal is to determine
how these indicators may or may not change the level of substance abuse.
Unlike the regression on fighting at wave two and contrary to hypothesis
three, shame at wave one has no effect on alcohol abuse, while the effect
of fighting at the base year and at wave two significantly increase alcohol
abuse (see Table 2). (It should also be noted that the effects of alcohol
abuse on fighting are greater than the effects of fighting on alcohol
abuse). However, high self-esteem now acts as constraint to drinking by
significantly decreasing alcohol use. Again, this effect was not seen
in the regressions on fighting. This supports revised strain theory's
major tenet that some personality traits act to constrain the delinquency
coping response (Agnew, 1992; Agnew, 2001). However, as anticipated and
congruent with hypothesis five, youth who run away from home are significantly
more likely to engage in substance abuse. Consistent with hypothesis one,
youth who are arrested were also significantly more likely to engage in
alcohol abuse. Other types of substance abuse also significantly increase
the severity of alcohol abuse. Finally, while the only indicator of reintegrative
shaming in this model has no effect on alcohol abuse, it may have resulted
in the insignificance of the shame variable. This will be further examined
in the wave three models of other types of substance abuse in the next
section, when this regression is compared to models of cocaine and marijuana
abuse with and without the reintegrative shaming variables. In this model
there is no support for hypothesis two, as the indicators or attachment
do not have the expected effects on alcohol abuse. Contrary to hypothesis
two but consistent with an earlier regression on fighting, youth whose
parents limit the youth's time with friends are significantly more likely
to engage in alcohol abuse. Again, this variable may be measuring controlling
or rigid parenting rather than secure attachment.
While African Americans, Hispanics, Asian Americans, and females are significantly
less likely to abuse alcohol, it appears that white males may be most
likely to abuse alcohol. Further, youth from more urban areas are significantly
less likely to engage in alcohol abuse. Approximately twenty four percent
of the variance is explained in alcohol abuse using this model.
The model explaining alcohol abuse at wave three reveals that one of the
best predictors is wave three shame. Thus, it appears that the inclusion
of the reintegrative shaming indicator in the model on wave two alcohol
abuse (see above discussion) does decrease the effect of shame, thus partially
supporting hypothesis four. Reintegrative shaming acts to negatively effect
shame indirectly in the alcohol abuse models just as it did in the fighting
regressions. Running away at wave two significantly increases alcohol
abuse as predicted by hypothesis five. While contrary to hypothesis five,
running away at wave three significantly decreases alcohol abuse. The
effect of arrest at wave three is also congruent with hypothesis one.
Arrested youth are more likely to engage in alcohol abuse. Only one indicator
of attachment had an effect in the expected direction. Youth who report
that their parents trust them were significantly less likely to engage
in alcohol abuse. However, the indicator of insecure attachment, parents'
reports that their child has emotional problems, also significantly decreased
alcohol abuse. This variable may be measuring other manifestations of
strain different from alcohol abuse. Fighting at waves two and three significantly
increases alcohol abuse. Also as expected and congruent with previous
research, alcohol abuse at wave two significantly increases alcohol abuse
at wave three. Also marijuana and cocaine abuse at wave three significantly
increase alcohol abuse at wave three. However, wave two marijuana abuse
negatively affects alcohol abuse at wave three. This may support the existence
of some unique pathways of development among those who abuse specific
types of substances.
Youth from wealthier families are significantly more likely to abuse alcohol
at wave three. White males remain significantly more likely to abuse alcohol
at wave three. However, African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans,
and females are significantly less likely to abuse alcohol at wave three.
It should be noted that the direction of the effect remains negative for
Hispanics, but it loses its significance from the wave one model on alcohol
abuse. Again, youth from more urbanized areas are significantly less likely
to abuse alcohol. Approximately thirty-seven percent of the variance in
alcohol abuse is explained using this model.
Marijuana abuse at wave three is best explained by alcohol abuse at wave
three and cocaine abuse at wave three. Interestingly, while aggressiveness
in the base year significantly increases marijuana abuse at wave three,
wave three fighting significantly decreases marijuana abuse at wave three.
This provides some support for the above-discussed proposition that substance
abuse pathways are unique and disparate from pathways toward traditional
types of delinquency. Moreover, while there is a reciprocal effect among
these forms of deviance, it suggests to criminologists studying these
behaviors that separate scales should be developed for these behaviors
when used as independent or dependent variables, thus taking into account
these unique paths of development.
Indicators of secure attachment again reflect no support for hypothesis
two. In fact of some of these effects are in the opposite direction from
the expected. Parents' trust in the youth significantly increases marijuana
abuse, while youth whose parents report that the youth has emotional problems
are significantly less likely to abuse marijuana. While the latter affect
was explained above, the former is more difficult to understand. Perhaps,
again as the youth ages, this variable begins to measure something entirely
different. Perhaps the parents' trust is now exploited by the youth to
cover up his or her abuse of an illegal substance.
As anticipated and as shown in the regression on alcohol abuse at wave
two, wave one high self-esteem significantly decreases marijuana abuse
at wave three. It again appears to act as a constraint to delinquent coping,
as predicted by revised strain theory. Moreover, high self-esteem may
be the product of a secure attachment. Thus secure attachment may indirectly
affect marijuana abuse through high self-esteem. By extension, wave three
low self-esteem significantly increases marijuana abuse.
Also contrary to expectations, shame has no effect on marijuana abuse
at wave three, partially disputing hypothesis three. Moreover, as seen
below, shame also has no effects on cocaine abuse. Thus, it appears that
shame only acts to increase violence and alcohol abuse. As expected, running
away at wave two and arrest at wave three significantly increase marijuana
abuse at wave three. However, running away at wave three significantly
decreases marijuana abuse at wave three. Wave three alcohol and cocaine
abuse significantly increase marijuana abuse at wave three. Thus, perhaps
as substance abusers continue to age, they are more likely to move from
separate pathways of development toward one pathway characterized by the
abuse of a multitude of different substances, or whatever is most easily
available. This is reflected by the significant negative effect of alcohol
abuse at wave two on marijuana abuse at wave three. Finally, wave two-marijuana
abuse significantly increases wave three marijuana abuse.
Interestingly, most of the earlier demonstrated effects of race, class,
and gender disappear in this model explaining marijuana abuse at wave
three. Being Hispanic decreases marijuana abuse, but the effect only approaches
significance. This may reflect that marijuana abuse has become equally
common or uncommon among older youth in the 1990's. Thirty-eight percent
of the variance in marijuana abuse was explained using this model.
Cocaine abuse at wave three is best explained by marijuana abuse at wave
three and being arrested at wave three. Both of these significantly increase
cocaine abuse. While arrest at wave three leads to the increased abuse
of cocaine, arrest at wave two significantly decreases cocaine abuse at
wave three. This provides mixed support for hypothesis one, and may reflect
that there may be some sort of short term deterrent effect associated
with social embarrassment or anxiety fear with regard to the abuse of
cocaine that is not associated with other forms of substance abuse or
fighting (Tibbetts, 1997). Overall arrest increases most forms of substance
abuse and aggressiveness, thus providing support to Braithwaite's reintegrative
shaming theory that arrest or punitive measures are disintegrative rather
than reintegrative. Similarly, consistent with revised strain theory and
the social capital theory of crime, running away at wave two significantly
increases cocaine abuse at wave three. This is congruent with hypothesis
five. In this model, attachment, shame, and self-esteem effects are non-existent.
It could be argued that the pathway leading toward cocaine abuse is quite
unique from other forms of substance abuse. This is supported by the negative
effects of alcohol abuse and marijuana abuse at wave two on cocaine abuse
at wave three. Each of these types of early substance abuse significantly
decreases later cocaine abuse. However, as the respondents age, alcohol
abuse, marijuana abuse, and fighting at wave three each significantly
increase cocaine abuse at wave three. The strongest of these effects is
marijuana abuse, thus perhaps these two forms of substance abuse have
the greatest behavioral link as the respondents age.
Among the control variables Hispanics are significantly more likely to
abuse cocaine, while whites are less likely to abuse cocaine, but this
effect only approaches significance. Moreover, living in a more urban
area significantly decreases cocaine abuse at wave three. Only eighteen
percent of the variance in cocaine abuse at wave three is explained using
this model.
MODELS WITH REINTEGRATVIE SHAMING AND SOCIAL CAPITAL INDICATORS
Table 2 illustrates the regression equation on fighting at wave three
that includes indicators of reintegrative shaming and work attachment
variables (see Table 2). While only one of these indicators illustrates
a significant effect, and it is in the opposite direction than expected,
a variety of other changes occur in the model. First, the direction of
the effects of both shame scales changes, and shame at wave three loses
its statistical significance. Thus as hypothesized, reintegrative shaming
techniques decrease the effect of shame on violence. This is consistent
with Hagan and McCarthy's research in Canada reflecting that progressive
social welfare programming assists in leading street youth towards desistance.
It is also consistent with the desistance effects of work, as illustrated
in Sampson and Laub's social capital model. Moreover, the effects of running
away at both wave two and three either disappear or decrease in strength
after including the social capital indicators (attachment to work and
reintegrative shaming variables). Specifically, running away at wave two
loses its significance and running away at wave two decreases in size.
Also congruent with the integrated social capital theory of crime, arrest
at wave three loses its strength by decreasing substantially in size.
The positive effect of high self-esteem at wave one loses substantial
strength in this model while the negative effect of low self-esteem at
wave three loses its significance. Thus, with regard to aggressive behavior,
early levels of high self-esteem may be capturing a form of youthful over-confidence
or arrogance, while low-esteem at older ages may be more likely to account
for humility, thus prohibiting aggressiveness. Moreover, when reintegrative
shaming and attachment indicators are included in the model, arrogance
is least likely to lead toward aggression, while humility is simply unimportant.
Similarly, fighting in the base year loses its significance, reflecting
that intervention with early initiators of aggressive behavior can be
successful if progressive social welfare policies or forms of reintegrative
shaming are used. This supports hypothesis four and the integrative social
capital theory of crime. However, the effect of wave two fighting increases
in strength in this model. This may reflect that effect if wave one fighting
only reappears indirectly through its effect on wave two fighting, or
that the effects of reintegrative shaming and work attachments require
a greater time lag to demonstrate their negative effects. Wave two alcohol
abuse and wave three cocaine abuse effects lose their significant effects
on violence at wave three, while alcohol and marijuana abuse effects at
wave three increase their effect on violence at wave three. This may reflect
support for previous research revealing that violent men or women who
are also substance abusers are least likely to desist as the result of
attachment relationships (Sampson and Laub, 1993; Baskin and Sommers,
1998). Moreover, being court ordered to complete volunteer work at wave
three has a significant positive effect. This may be the result of having
inadvertently captured a more punitive court response than was intended.
In other words, if the youth ends up in court and is ordered to work,
he or she has already been arrested and suffered the disintegrative shaming
effects.
Finally, very notable changes in some of the gender and race effects occur
here. The earlier gender, class, and racial effects in this equation almost
completely disappear. Specifically, the effect of being Native American
begins to approach standard levels of significance. This may reflect the
cultural history of communitarianism among Native American tribes that
may make them more amenable to the effects of reintegrative shaming. Moreover,
the elimination of the positive effect of being African American and Hispanic
on violence also reflects that reintegrative shaming techniques work for
these specific racial or ethnic groups and leads towards desistance. Moreover,
the social capital variables may have evened the playing field between
whites and minority members. That is whites are now no less likely to
be involved in violence than other racial groups. Additionally, the protective
of effect of class loses some strength and now only approaches significance.
This reflects support for Hagan and McCarthy's findings that poverty itself
is disintegrative and that socially progressive programming can cancel
out the poverty effect. Finally, reintegrative shaming and work attachment
indicators also appear to even the playing field among men and women.
Now males, as result of reintegrative shaming and work attachments, are
just as likely as women to avoid involvement in aggressive behavior. However,
this model only explains approximately fifteen percent of the variance
in violent behavior at wave three.
Table 3 illustrates the final regression equations on wave three shame,
and wave three marijuana abuse, cocaine abuse, and alcohol abuse after
including the reintegrative shaming and work attachment indicators.
Some changes in the wave three shame model are illustrated in Table
3. One indicator of secure attachment increases in strength. The youth's
reports of parents' trust significantly decreases shame at wave three.
This is consistent with the proposed theoretical mode and with hypothesis
four. Recall that hypothesis four and the new integrated model of social
capital theory that posits that new attachments to work or reintegrative
shaming techniques will modify old attachment templates and thus decrease
shame. However, the other two indicators of attachment have effects in
the opposite direction as expected. Additionally, these effects also become
significant. Parents who limit the time that youth spend with friends
significantly increases shame at wave three. Also parents who report that
the youth has emotional problems significantly increases shame at wave
three. One explanation of these changes lies within the significant positive
effect of being court ordered to complete volunteer work. This indicator
may have inadvertently measured a post arrest court appearance thus taking
into account disintegrative shaming. This then increased the effect of
the parents' limiting time with friends. This is congruent with the change
in the significance of the effect of belief that the youth has emotional
problems, that is more rigid parenting coupled with disintegrative criminal
justice techniques act together to increase the effect of the parents'
belief. This also supported by the measure of being court ordered to work
may have indirectly tapped into a punitive or disintegrative shaming effect
as illustrated in the change of strength of the significant positive effect
of shame at wave one on shame at wave three.
Also contrary to expectations, working an increased number of hours per
week at wave two significantly increases shame at wave three. This may
reflect that working a great number of hours per week (higher codes reflect
working from thirty to forty hours per week) at age fifteen and sixteen
(recall that most of the youth are in tenth grade at this time) may be
something that only some youth have to do, like those helping out their
families, or conversely youth who need the money to pay for an alcohol
or drug habit. Either of these possibilities explains an increase in the
experience of emotional shame. Other indicators of social capital (one
work attachment variable and another reintegrative shaming indicator),
hours worked in wave three, and attendance at a dropout prevention program,
have no direct effects. It is posited here that the effect of these indicators
is illustrated through their effects on the indicator of secure attachment,
youth's report of parents' trust. This again supports the theoretical
model proposed in the paper, that is to integrate John Bowlby's attachment
theory rather than Hirschi's control theory with revised strain theory
and Braithwaite's reintegrative shaming theory. Approximately, forty percent
of the variance is accounted for in this model explaining shame at wave
three.
Congruent with hypothesis five, the inclusion of all the social capital
variables leads the effect of shame at wave three to lose its significance
on alcohol abuse at wave three. The negative effect of parents' trust
in youth increases in strength while the effect of parents limiting time
with friends significantly increases alcohol abuse at wave three. Again,
it is likely that the probable disintegrative punitive and significant
positive effect of being court ordered to do volunteer work on alcohol
abuse in conjunction with use of controlling time spent with friends leads
both to have a significant positive effect on alcohol abuse. Both appear
to be forms of disintegrative shaming that increase rather than decrease
deviance. In this model the negative effect of effect of being Native
American loses its significance. No other salient changes are noted in
the race or gender effects. The effects of wave one, wave two, and wave
three fighting on alcohol abuse also change. Wave one fighting significantly
increases alcohol abuse at wave three. However, wave two and wave three
fighting lose their strength on alcohol abuse at wave three and no longer
have any effect. In conjunction with the on-going positive effect of alcohol
abuse at wave two, this pattern seems to illustrate that the inclusion
of the other reintegrative shaming and social capital indicators lead
youth who were both early drinkers and early fighters only towards desistance
from later forms of aggressive behavior, but not alcohol abuse. However,
these effects are indirect, as none of the social capital indicators have
direct negative effects on alcohol abuse at wave three. Consistent with
previous models, being court ordered to work increases alcohol abuse,
although the effect only approaches significance. No other salient changes
in the model are shown.
In the model explaining marijuana abuse at wave three, the social capital
indicators have no direct desistance effects on marijuana use. However,
one indicator of secure attachment does change. Parents' trust in the
youth loses its significant positive effect. Thus, the inclusion of the
social capital variables do appear to modify the original attachment template
indirectly, but as expected they fail to have a direct desistance effect
on marijuana abuse. Additionally, social capital indicators also appear
to lead the fighting indicator at wave one and wave two to lose their
strength. However, little change occurs in the effects of other forms
of substance abuse on marijuana use at wave three. Again, social capital
and reintegrative shaming indicators appear to disentangle the aggressive
and substance abusing pathways, by leading those who began fighting in
early adolescence (eighth graders and tenth graders) to desist, while
minimal desistance effects on the early substance abusers are noted (the
negative effect of wave two alcohol abuse does increase slightly in this
model by .10). Similarly, no desistance effects are illustrated among
those who begin acting out aggressively later (seniors in high school).
However, consistent with the new social capital theory of crime, another
indirect effect of the social capital indicators is illustrated in the
change of the effect of arrest on marijuana abuse at wave three. The effect
of arrest at wave three loses its significance, since it no longer increases
marijuana abuse at wave three. But the effect of running away at wave
two increases rather than decreases in strength. Perhaps those who experience
early strains in the family are less likely to decrease their usage even
with reintegrative shaming interventions. Conversely, these interventions
are strong enough to facilitate a stronger negative effect of running
away at wave three on marijuana abuse at wave three. In other words, reintegrative
shaming may decrease the damage done by early family strain. In this social
capital model African Americans are significantly more likely to abuse
marijuana, while the likelihood of Hispanics being significantly less
likely to abuse marijuana now increases slightly. Youth with families
making more money are now less likely to abuse marijuana, but this effect
only approaches significance. Urban youth are now slightly more likely
to abuse marijuana. Thirty-eight percent of the variance in marijuana
abuse at wave three is explained using this model.
In the model explaining cocaine abuse at wave three one of social capital
indicators illustrates a significant effect. Specifically, contrary to
previous models and hypothesis four, being court ordered to complete volunteer
work decreases cocaine abuse, although the effect only approaches significance.
Moreover, high self-esteem now decreases cocaine abuse, although this
effect also only approaches significance. Additionally, the effect of
low self esteem changes and significantly decreases cocaine abuse while
the effect of secure attachment increases cocaine abuse. However, this
effect only approaches significance. All of the changes in the model make
intuitive sense in light of the indirect effects of the social capital
variables discussed in previous models. However, the unique effect here
of court ordered work may be the result of the path uniqueness of the
path leading to cocaine abuse. For instance, the drug is expensive, thus
wealthy or well to-do youth are more likely to have the opportunity to
buy it and use it. Thus, when well-to-do youth are court ordered to do
volunteer work, they may suffer such embarrassment or shame that at least
short term desistance from cocaine abuse is the result (Tibbetts 1997).
Secure attachment may act to increase cocaine abuse partly as the result
of this specific drug of abuse, its likely use by more well-to-do youth
(even though the class effect is not significant, the direction remains
positive), that may engender over-concern or doting behaviors that only
facilitate more resentment by the youth and thus more cocaine abuse. Two
changes occur in the strength of gender and race effects in this model.
In this model whites are no less likely to abuse cocaine than other racial
groups. However, Hispanics continue to be significantly more likely to
abuse cocaine and the effect becomes somewhat stronger. The significant
negative effect of degree of urbanity increases somewhat. Fifteen percent
of the variance in cocaine abuse at wave three is explained using this
model.
CONCLUSION
Although Sampson and Laub found that increases in social capital failed
to lead towards desistance among violent men, partly because they also
had drinking problems, Hagan and McCarthy found that more modern reintegrative
shaming criminal justice policies acted to decrease the substance abuse
problems of runaway youth. This work illustrates partial support for both
perspectives. Specifically, only cocaine abusing youth who are court ordered
to complete volunteer work are led towards desistance and only those youth
who work more hours in early adolescence are led towards desistance from
alcohol abuse. By extension, youth who are involved in aggressive behavior
are both more likely to abuse substances and are the least likely group
to be led towards desistance by reintegrative shaming techniques or attachments
to work. Nonetheless, increases in social capital do indirectly decrease
shame as well as decrease shame's effects on violence, alcohol abuse,
and marijuana abuse. Increases in social capital also act to increase
the negative effect of early secure infant parent attachment on alcohol
abuse and marijuana abuse. It is apparent then that using Bowlby's attachment
theory, rather than Hirschi's control theory, provides greater strength
to the model and including reintegrative shaming indicators as well as
attachments to work remain necessary in re-examining both Hagan and McCarthy's
as well as Sampson's and Laub's social capital theories.
Clearly, more work is needed to replicate Hagan and McCarthy's work. Such
research should utilize improved indicators for reintegrative shaming
such as residential group homes, day treatment and job training, drug
court participation, and perhaps even successful completion of restorative
justice processes, as suggested by Braithwaite himself. Restorative justice
programs facilitates the healing of the crime victim's trauma, heals offenders,
transforms the relationship between offenders and their victims, and sometimes
leads towards forgiveness (Umbreit 2001). Therefore, it is important to
measure quality job attachments, rather than simply hours worked at a
job per week as well as quality marital attachments and successful participation
in restorative justice programming.
There are some problems with the model specification. First, respondent
attrition remains a problem in this longitudinal data set, as it does
in many others. Moreover, no effort was made to measure the differences
between high school dropouts and those youth who remained in school. Therefore,
future work should include missing data analysis as well as an analysis
of the high school dropouts. Moreover, there are some causal order problems.
For example, wave two fighting was predicted by running away at wave two.
Clearly, it is recognized that there may be a causal ordering problem
here. In other words, an adolescent who fights at school at wave two cannot
also be a runaway. However, readers are reminded that this variable was
selected as a proxy indicator for severe strain or childhood maltreatment.
But this author and readers have no way of knowing which of these events
preceded the other. Nonetheless, this model should be interpreted cautiously.
A similar problem exists with the indicator of fighting at wave three
coming to or from school. However, it should be mentioned that there may
be some times when youth run away from home, and then return for brief
periods, begin attending school, and subsequently engage in aggressive
behavior or visa versa. But time spent away from home during runaway periods
is unavailable so again these particular results should be interpreted
cautiously. Future work should attempt to replicate this test by teasing
out the causal order problem here or measuring self reported aggressiveness
outside of school. After all this was a paramount criticism in Hagan and
McCarthy's "Mean Streets", to get criminologists away from measuring
minor delinquency in school and get out on the streets talking to our
most deprived and abused young people who use delinquency as a survival
tool and need serious social assistance. Another problem with the extant
test is that there were no indicators available to use to measure the
process of empathic responsiveness or its development. These processes
are assumed to take place through a secure attachment in early infancy
and through reintegrative shaming or quality attachments to work later
in life. Clearly, the empirical evidence reveals that such a process is
taking place, but better indicators must be used to verify more fully
this portion of the model. Additionally, data collected must begin to
take into account early parent infant attachment in the first two years
of life, rather than using measures to account for this attachment in
early adolescence.
The unique effects of race, class, and gender also require that criminologists
stop using dummy variables to measure a lifetime of unique cultural and
socialization experiences. We must begin to examine each specific racial,
ethnic, gender, and socio-economic group separately to better understand
the unique predictors for each group, as well as the unique kinds of programming
required to lead towards desistance. Agnew's recent more parsimonious
strain model calls for such analyses. Moreover, other empirical work has
previously demonstrated the efficacy of such modeling (Agnew 2001; Katz
2000a).
Finally, it is quite clear that arrest is disintegrative, creates shame
and increases the propensity for violence and substance abuse among adolescents.
Therefore, we must begin to call upon policy makers to transform the punitive
criminal justice system and educate the public by informing them that
the system does not work to end crime but only facilitates more of it.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rebecca S. Katz is an Associate Professor
of Sociology, Criminology, and Women's Studies at Morehead State University
in Morehead Kentucky. Dr. Katz has approximately ten years of experience
as a mental health therapist working with delinquents, substance abusers
and adult offenders. She has published research in Crime, Law, and
Social Change, Sociological Focus, Violence Against Women,
and the Journal of Criminal Justice Education. Her interests include
developmental theories of crime, gender, race, and white supremacy and
international crimes. back
Appendix: Frequencies, Coding, and Factor and Reliability
Analysis of Dependent and Independent Variables
Dependent Variables
|
Shame At Wave 1 Question Items
|
Code/ Percent
|
Factor Loading
|
| I certainly feel useless at times. |
4 = Strongly Agree 7.8 %
3 = Agree 38.3%
2 = Disagree 32.5 %
1 = Strongly Disagree 12.3%
Missing 9.1%
|
.790
|
| At times I think I am no good at all. |
4 = Strongly Agree 7.2%
3 = Agree 30%
2 = Disagree 32.3%
1 = Strongly Disagree 21.6%
Missing 8.9%
|
.819
|
| I feel I do not have much to be proud of. |
4 = Strongly Agree 3.3%
3 = Agree 9.3%
2 = Disagree 38.3%
1 = Strongly Disagree 40.3%
Missing 8.7%
|
.674
|
| My plans hardly ever work out, so planning really makes
me unhappy. |
4 = Strongly Agree 4.8%
3 = Agree 13%
2 = Disagree 48.3%
1 = Strongly Disagree 25.3%
Missing 8.5% |
.661
|
Scale Alpha =.722
| Shame at Wave Three |
Code/ Percent |
Factor Loading |
| I certainly feel useless at times. |
4=Strongly Agree 3.7%
3=Agree 30.5%
2=Disagree 31.9%
1=Strongly Disagree 11.6%
Missing=22.3% |
.821
|
| At times I think I am no good at all. |
4=Strongly Agree 3.5%
3=Agree 21.6%
2=Disagree 33.5%
1=Strongly Disagree 18.8%
Missing 22.7% |
.855
|
| I feel I do not have much to be proud of. |
4=Strongly Agree 2.7%
3=Agree 8.3%
2=Disagree 39.2%
1=Strongly Disagree 27.2%
Missing 22.6% |
.724
|
| My plans hardly ever work out, so planning really makes
me unhappy. |
4=Strongly Agree 2.9%
3=Agree 11.8%
2=Disagree 45.9%
1=Strongly Disagree 16.9%
Missing 22.6% |
.721
|
Scale Alpha=.785
|
Fighting Variables
|
Code/ Percent
|
| Fighting at School in last year base year |
0=75.9%
1=once to more than twice 22.4%
missing=1.7% |
| Fighting at School in last year Wave Two |
0=none 76.9%
1=Once to more than twice 16.4%
Missing=6.9% |
|
Fighting to or from school in last school year Wave Three
|
0=none 79.8%
1=one to two fights 4.3%
2=two or more fights 1.4%
missing=14.5% |
| Alcohol Abuse Wave Two |
Code/ Percent |
Factor Loading |
| Number of times drank more than 5 drinks in a row |
0=none 64.5%
1=one 8.2%
2=two 5.3%
3=three 3.5%
4=four 1.1%
5-five 1.4%
Missing=6.6% |
.908
|
| Number of times drank over the last 30 days |
0=none 45.4%
1=1 20.2%
2=2 9.9%
3=3 1.1%
Missing 14% |
.908
|
Scale Alpha=.762
| Alcohol Abuse Wave Three |
Code/ Percent |
Factor Loading |
| Number of occasions in last school year at school under
the influence |
0=None 69%
1=1 to 2 times 6.6%
2=3 to 19 times 2.2%
3=20 or more times .8%
Missing 21.4% |
.802
|
| Number of times had five or more drinks in a row in
the last two weeks |
0=Never 57.3%
1=once 8.5%
2=twice 5.5%
3=3 to 5 times 4.7%
4=6 to 9 times 1.6%
5=10 or more times 1.7% |
.840
|
| Number of times drank alcohol throughout the year |
0=None 17.6%
1=1 to 2 times 19.2%
2=3 to 19 times 24.7%
3=20 or more times 14.1%
Missing 24.4% |
.697
|
Scale Alpha=.655
| Marijuana Abuse Wave Two |
Code/ Percent |
Factor Loading |
| Number of times used over the last year |
0=0 65.7%
1=one to two times 5.3%
2=three to nineteen times 3.4%
3=More than 20 times 1.7%
Missing 24% |
.943
|
| Marijuana Abuse Scale (continued) Number of times used
over the last month |
0=none 70.6%
1=1 to 2 times 3.2%
2=3 to 19 times 1.7%
3=More than 20 times .6%
Missing 24% |
.943
|
Scale Alpha=.839
| Marijuana Abuse Wave Three |
Code/ Percent |
Factor Loading |
| Number of time have you used pot in last month |
None=64%
1=1 to 2 times 3.8%
2=3 to 19 times 2.1%
3=20 or more times 1.0
Missing=29.1% |
.910
|
Number of times under the influence of marijuana on
school grounds
since beginning of year |
0=none 69.3%
1=1 to 2 times 2.7%
2=3-29 times 1.4%
3=20 or more times .8%
Missing=25.8% |
.910
|
Scale Alpha =.785
| Cocaine Abuse Wave Two |
Code/ Percent |
Factor Loading |
| How many times used cocaine in the last 30 days |
0=none 70.3%
1=1 to 2 times .3%
2= 3 to 19 times .2%
3=20 or more times .2%
Missing=29.1% |
.901
|
| How many times used cocaine in the last year |
0=None 74.3%
1=one to 20 or more times 1.6%
Missing 24.1% |
.901
|
Scale Alpha=.734
| Cocaine Abuse Wave Three |
Code/ Percent |
Factor Loading |
| How many occasions were you under the influence of cocaine
on school grounds |
0=None 73.3%
1=1 to 2 times .4%
2=3 to 19 times .1%
3=More than 20 times .2%
Missing 26% |
.929
|
| How many times used cocaine in the last 30 days |
0=None 70.3%
1=1 to 2 times .3%
2=3 to 19 times .2%
3=20 or more times .2%
Missing 29.1% |
.929
|
Alpha=.842
Independent Variables
| Variables |
Code/ Percent |
| Runaway in the last two years wave two |
0=No 75.8%
1=Yes 4.1%
Missing=20.2% |
| Runaway in the last two years wave three |
0=No 72 %
1=Yes 4.0%
Missing 24% |
| Arrested in Wave Two: How many times arrested in the last
semester of current school year? |
0=86.9%
1=2.5%
2=.2%
3=.1%
4=.1%
missing=9.4% |
| Arrested Wave Three: How many times arrested in the first
semester of the current school year? |
0=82.5%
1=2.3%
2=.3%
3=.1%
4=0%
5=.1%
missing=14.6 |
| Detention Center Wave Three: How many times
held in detention center wave three? |
0=84%
1=.7%
2=.1%
3=.1%
4=.0%
5=.1%
Missing=14.6%
|
| Parental Supervision Base Year: Parents limit the amount
of time youth spends with friends. |
0=never 10.1%
1=rarely 14.7%
2=sometimes 28.3%
3=often 38.6%
missing=8.2% |
| Emotional Problems: Parents believe that their child has
emotional problems base year. |
0=no 84.5%
1=yes 2.3%
Missing=13.2% |
| Youth/Parent Attachment: My parents trust me to do what they
expect without checking up on me. |
0=False 19.6%
1=True 72.6% of youth said this was true.
Missing=8.3% |
| Degree of Urbanity |
1=Rural 29%
2=Suburban 39.7% percent
3=Urban 23.9 percent
Missing=7.3% |
| High Self Esteem Wave One |
Code/ Percent |
Factor Loading |
| Feel good about self |
4=Strongly Agree 32.6%
3=Agree 52.5%
2=Disagree 0%
1=Strongly Disagree 6.8%
Missing=8.2% |
.763 |
| Feel that I am a person of worth equal to that of other people |
4=Strongly Agree 36.8%
3=Agree 46.8%
2=Disagree 5.9%
1=Strongly Disagree 1.3%
Missing 9.2% |
.738 |
| I am able to do things as well as most other people |
4=Strongly Agree 35.9%
3=Agree 48%
2=Disagree 6.3%
1=Strongly Disagree .9%
Missing 8.9% |
.684 |
| On the whole I am satisfied with myself |
4=Strongly Agree 30.9%
3=Agree 49.3%
2=Disagree 9.2%
1=Strongly Disagree 1.6%
Missing 8.9% |
.782 |
Alpha Scale=.728
| Low Self-Esteem Wave Three |
Code/ Percent |
Factor Loading |
| Feels good about self |
4=Strongly Disagree .9%
3=Disagree 4.4%
2=Agree 40.8%
1=Strongly Agree 32.1%
Missing 21.7% |
.797 |
| Feels he or she is a person of worth |
4=Strongly Disagree 1.1%
3=Disagree 3.9%
2=Agree 40.3%
1=Strongly Agree 32.21%
Missing 22.5% |
.823 |
| Is able to do things as well as others |
4=Strongly Disagree .9%
3=Disagree 4.4%
2=Agree 40.8%
1=Strongly Agree 32.1%
Missing 21.7% |
.794 |
| On whole I am satisfied with self |
4=Strongly Disagree 1.3%
3=Disagree 7.6%
2=Agree 42.5%
1=Strongly Agree 26.2%
Missing 22.4% |
.797 |
Alpha Scale=.815
Social Capital Variables or Reintegrative Shaming Variables
| Variables |
Code/ Percent |
| Attended drop prevention program Wave Two |
1=yes 1.7%
0=no 86.0
Missing=12.3% |
| Court ordered to do volunteer work Wave Three |
0=no 35.6%
1=yes 1.3%
Missing 63.1% |
| Hours worked base year besides home chores |
0=None 29.1%
1=up to four hours 31.89%
2=five to ten hours 18.3%
3=11 to 20 hours 6.9%
4=21 or more hours 5.1%
missing=8.8% |
| Hours worked Wave Two |
0=0 to 10 hours 30.4%
1=11 to 20 hours 31.6%
2=21 to 30 hours 19.7%
3=31 to 40 hours 12.6%
4=over 40 hours 5.7% |
| Hours worked Wave Three |
0=not working 14.5%
1=1 to 5 hours 5.3%
2=6 to 10 hours 7.6%
3=11 to 15 hours 9.9%
4=16 to 20 hours 12.9%
5=21 to 25 hours 7.9%
6=31-35 hours 4.5%
7=36 to 40 hours 2.2%
8=over 40 hours 1.4%
missing=12.3% |
Control Variables
| Variables |
Code/ Percent |
| Family Income Base Year |
0=None .4%
1=9,999 or less 9.9%
2=10K-24,999 22.5%
3=25K=74,999 43.8%
4=Over 75K 7%
Missing=16.5% |
Racial Demographics (8% Missing)
| |
Black compared to all others
Hispanic compared to all others
White compared to all others
Native American compared to all others
Asian Americans compared to all others |
|
|
| Gender |
1=Female=47.6%
0=Male=45.1%
Missing=7.3% |
|