Legal Cynicism and Parental Appraisals of Adolescent Violence
| dc.contributor.author | Soller, Brian | |
| dc.contributor.author | Jackson Soller, Aubrey | |
| dc.contributor.author | Browning, Christopher R. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-08-20T17:50:14Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2020-08-20T17:50:14Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2014-05-22 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Research suggests that legal cynicism—a cultural frame in which the law is viewed as illegitimate and ineffective—encourages violence to maintain personal safety when legal recourse is unreliable. But no study has tested the impact of legal cynicism on appraisals of violence. Drawing from symbolic interaction theory and cultural sociology, we tested whether neighbourhood legal cynicism alters the extent to which parents appraise their children’s violence as indicative of aggressive or impulsive temperaments using data from the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. We find that legal cynicism attenuates the positive association between adolescent violence and parental assessments of aggression and impulsivity. Our study advances the understanding of micro-level processes through which prevailing cultural frames in the neighbourhood shape violence appraisals. | en_US |
| dc.description.sponsorship | This work was supported by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Grant R01 HD057945. The Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods was funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the National Institute of Justice and the National Institute of Mental Health. The findings reported here do not necessarily represent the views of the funders of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods. We thank David Kirk for his thoughtful feedback on an earlier draft of this article. | en_US |
| dc.description.uri | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4055156/ | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 24 pages | en_US |
| dc.genre | journal articles | en_US |
| dc.identifier | doi:10.13016/m26fka-4ab6 | |
| dc.identifier.citation | Brian Soller, Aubrey L. Jackson, and Christopher R. Browning, Legal Cynicism and Parental Appraisals of Adolescent Violence, Br J Criminol. 2014 Jul; 54(4): 568–591 (2014), doi: 10.1093/bjc/azu027 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | 10.1093/bjc/azu027 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11603/19477 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) | |
| dc.relation.ispartof | UMBC Sociology and Anthropology Department Collection | |
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| dc.rights | This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced version of an article accepted for publication in The British Journal of Criminology following peer review. The version of record Brian Soller, Aubrey L. Jackson, and Christopher R. Browning, Legal Cynicism and Parental Appraisals of Adolescent Violence, Br J Criminol. 2014 Jul; 54(4): 568–591 (2014), doi: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu027 is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/bjc/azu027. | |
| dc.title | Legal Cynicism and Parental Appraisals of Adolescent Violence | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Neighborhood legal cynicism and parental assessments of adolescent violence | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |