Western research has investigated individual correlates of fear crime with a primary focus on people's vulnerability. This vulnerability model examines the possible effects indicators physical (e.g. age and gender) social income education). As is well documented in China, guanxi unique aspect capital Chinese society. The present study argues that immediate neighbourhood an important indicator individuals urban China. We accordingly hypothesize residents who have strong are less likely to be...

Previous research in the West has established major socio-demographic correlates of fear crime. The interpretation these is typically based on concept physical or social vulnerability individuals. These are implicitly regarded as invariant to community contexts, reflecting universal human behavioral patterns. present study argues that change may alter patterns perceptions associated with among groups, thus affecting We explore how changes China have created a generational gap influences...

Abstract Since the expansion of social insurance to migrants and abolition unequal regulations controls related rural–urban in recent years, increasing attention has been paid determinants migrants' settlement intentions. Using 2016 National Floating Population Dynamics Monitoring Survey (NFPDMS), this study examines associations between urban welfare participation their intentions, including long‐term intention transfer one's hukou status. Results from logistic regression show that schemes...

Negative affect has been identified as a factor influencing continued smoking during pregnancy. In this study, multi-component emotion regulation intervention was developed to address negative emotional triggers and pilot-tested among low-income pregnant smokers. Treatment feasibility acceptability, cotinine-verified rates of cessation, self-report mean cigarettes smoked were assessed. Pregnant smokers who self-reported in response (N = 70) randomly assigned receive one two 8-session...

The current study was undertaken to better understand the craving-drinking relationship among individuals dually diagnosed with a severe mental illness (SMI) and an alcohol use disorder (AUD). Using ambivalence conceptualization of craving (Breiner, Stritzke, & Lang, 1999), we investigated bidirectional relationships between desires behavioral intentions (approach inclinations) not (avoidance drinking outcomes in patients SMI-AUD.Patients (N = 278) seeking outpatient dual diagnosis treatment...

Objectives. Intergenerational contacts occur in the context of other family relationships. We examine how in-person among parents and all adult children affect each other, focusing on proximity predictors to assess whether visiting is correlated across children.

The authors use National Survey of Families and Households first wave data innovative modeling to examine how one parent-adult child pair may affect other pairs. Three conceptual models guide the analyses parents’ giving receiving socioemotional support, representing enhancement, compensation, independence. Giving support is related more others (enhancement), but from less receipt (compensation). Cross-sibling interactions do not reveal significant effects distance on exchanges with others,...

Although self-control consistently emerges as one of the most robust correlates delinquent behavior, limited empirical attempts have been made to explore contextual variability relationship between and delinquency outside Western societies. Using data collected from 587 seventh- ninth-grade students across 10 middle schools in a rural county Southeast China, we examine self-control’s efficacy explaining juvenile presence external environmental factors, investigate relative strength factors...

Anger and aggression are not only widespread but integral in understanding crime violence. This study examined the relationship between perceived threats to a set of cognitions labeled Code Honor with anger aggression. We hypothesized that self-esteem self-acceptance would mediate anger, such higher lessen effect anger. Results found strong, significant However, this was partially mediated by levels self-esteem, lower reduced strength one's These findings can help those designing delivering...

Two types of judicial errors—convicting an innocent person or acquitting a guilty person—challenge the integrity and legitimacy criminal justice. How citizens view these errors plays important role in justice policy. Utilizing data from national survey, this study applies established Western theories to explore correlates public attitudes regarding relative acceptance wrongful convictions erroneous acquittals contemporary China. The findings lend support both constructionist/conflict...

Compared with other mainstream criminological theories, Reintegrative Shaming Theory (RST) draws insufficient empirical evaluations. Given RST’s unique attention to non-Western societies and the significance of shaming in Chinese society, China provides a strategic setting for assessment. Utilizing youth sample, this study explores association between interdependency probability wrongdoing, mediating role perceived shame. We find that strong school attachment is directly associated reduced...

Individuals may consider socioeconomic status (SES) change from an absolute or relative standpoint. Across five studies and supplementary analyses of secondary data, we found that individuals who perceive SES as being unlikely to (i.e., low perceived social mobility) tend a standpoint—i.e., one person’s gain in occurs at the expense another’s loss SES—reflecting they harbor zero-sum beliefs regarding hierarchies. In other words, extent which believe society is mobile predicts how nature...

A good deal of research conducted in the West has documented complexities surrounding fear crime (for a review earlier literature, see Hale 1996). Studies have found that is not proportional to level crime; more widespread than itself; individuals who are fearful (Walklate, 1994; Stanko and Hobdell, 1993; Goodey Fattah Sacco 1989:212-226) those lower risk victimization. These important investigate. Fundamentally, what process or mechanism through which produced? This paper starts with assess...

As the social competition becomes more and intensifies, anxiety depression are very prevalence in recent society even develop into illness. Also, families can have both positive negative effects on children, which affect their mental health throughout lives. Thus, childhood trauma be a vital factor of depression. This paper analyzes how affects environment alleviates these emotions. Research had found that indirectly Different attitudes towards children will lead to different emotional...