Emerging Scholars on Emerging Adulthood: Explicating the Relationship between Social Environment and Offending

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

Five papers from emerging scholars are presented using data on 1,719 youth from British Columbia, Canada who participated in the Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study and who are now in various stages of adulthood. These papers emphasize the importance of studying stability/change in a person’s social environment during the transition from adolescence to adulthood and accounting for the connection between past and future risk via mediating and moderating relationships. The first paper considers the extent to which conceptually dynamic risk and protective factors are truly dynamic in reality for persons involved in serious and violent offenses. The second paper considers the extent to which changes in social environment influence changes in intimate partner violence only for persons with a particular developmental pathway in adolescence? The third paper examines whether informal social controls influence lower rates of offending equally across Indigenous and White participants. The fourth paper attempts to better understand the relationship between social environment and offending by examining its role as a mediator of the relationship between early substance use and persistent offending. The fifth paper examines whether the timing of residential mobility has implications for its role as a risk or protective factor over the life-course.

Sub Unit

• Area II. Perspectives on Crime / 2. Developmental and Life Course Perspectives

Individual Presentations

• A Multilevel Longitudinal Approach to Assessing Change in Dynamic Risk and Needs Factors - Kristina Kocsis, Simon Fraser University; Evan McCuish, Simon Fraser University

• Exploring the Relationship between Changes in Informal Social Control and Intimate Partner Violence - Hana Ryu, Simon Fraser University, BC Corrections; Evan McCuish, Simon Fraser University

• Desistance for Whom? Indigenous Peoples and their Social Environment in Emerging Adulthood - Ashley Kyne, Simon Fraser University; Evan McCuish, Simon Fraser University

• Substance Use Versatility and Offending among Girls: Examining the Mediating Role of Informal Social Controls - Alannah McPherson, Simon Fraser University; Evan McCuish, Simon Fraser University

• The Impact of Residential Stability on Reoffending over the Life-Course - Jen-Li Shen, Simon Fraser University; Evan McCuish, Simon Fraser University

Chair

• Jen-Li Shen, Simon Fraser University

Organized by a Division or external group?

The panel was organized by the Division of Developmental and Life-course Criminology