Predicting recidivism in a communitarian society: China.
Research on the prediction of recidivism has largely been an enterprise of Western criminology. Therefore, the identification and selection of predictors has tended to follow the individualistic traditions of the West. Important advances in models and methods have not been extended to non-Western societies such as China. This article explores the implications of communitarian features of Chinese urban communities for prediction of recidivism. The article applies the perspective of social capital to the specification of predictors. Available community social-capital measures are included in the prediction model to capture the effects of communitarian cultural features. The results indicate that social capital variables generally have significant effects.
Department of Sociology, Rhode Island College, 600 Mt. Pleasant Ave., Providence, RI 02908, USA. afs101@etal.uri.edu
Jianhong
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Liu
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002681:China; D003417:Criminal Psychology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011329:Prisoners / Q000523:psychology*; D012008:Recurrence; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012927:Social Control, Informal; D012933:Social Identification; D012941:Social Responsibility; D012944:Social Support; D012951:Socialization; D014481:United States