IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/eee/jcjust/v63y2019icp49-57.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Who tells the truth? Former inmates' self-reported arrests vs. official records

Author

Listed:
  • Daylor, Jordan M.
  • Blalock, Dan V.
  • Davis, Tess
  • Klauberg, William X.
  • Stuewig, Jeff
  • Tangney, June P.

Abstract

Self-reports are integral to the understanding of a variety of behavioral phenomena, with arrest history being no exception. The current study investigated how accurate self-reports of arrest are when compared to official arrest records, and we also assessed several new predictors of self-report accuracy.

Suggested Citation

  • Daylor, Jordan M. & Blalock, Dan V. & Davis, Tess & Klauberg, William X. & Stuewig, Jeff & Tangney, June P., 2019. "Who tells the truth? Former inmates' self-reported arrests vs. official records," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 63(C), pages 49-57.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jcjust:v:63:y:2019:i:c:p:49-57
    DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2019.04.002
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047235219300686
    Download Restriction: Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2019.04.002?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Philip A. Allen & Martin Sliwinski & Tanara Bowie & David J. Madden, 2002. "Differential Age Effects in Semantic and Episodic Memory," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 57(2), pages 173-186.
    2. Roberts, Jennifer & Wells, William, 2010. "The validity of criminal justice contacts reported by inmates: A comparison of self-reported data with official prison records," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 38(5), pages 1031-1037, September.
    3. Caudy, Michael S. & Folk, Johanna B. & Stuewig, Jeffrey B. & Wooditch, Alese & Martinez, Andres & Maass, Stephanie & Tangney, June P. & Taxman, Faye S., 2015. "Does substance misuse moderate the relationship between criminal thinking and recidivism?," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 43(1), pages 12-19.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Ellison, Jared M. & Gainey, Randy, 2020. "An opportunity model of safety risks among jail officers," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 66(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Tangney, June P. & Folk, Johanna B. & Graham, David M. & Stuewig, Jeffrey B. & Blalock, Daniel V. & Salatino, Andrew & Blasko, Brandy L. & Moore, Kelly E., 2016. "Changes in inmates' substance use and dependence from pre-incarceration to one year post-release," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 46(C), pages 228-238.
    2. Sarah Tahamont & Zubin Jelveh & Aaron Chalfin & Shi Yan & Benjamin Hansen, 2019. "Administrative Data Linking and Statistical Power Problems in Randomized Experiments," NBER Working Papers 25657, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Rachel M Brown & Stefan L K Gruijters & Sonja A Kotz, 2022. "Prediction in the Aging Brain: Merging Cognitive, Neurological, and Evolutionary Perspectives [Differential age effects in semantic and episodic memory]," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 77(9), pages 1580-1591.
    4. Vaughn, Michael G. & DeLisi, Matt & Gunter, Tracy & Fu, Qiang & Beaver, Kevin M. & Perron, Brian E. & Howard, Matthew O., 2011. "The Severe 5%: A Latent Class Analysis of the Externalizing Behavior Spectrum in the United States," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 75-80.
    5. McCart, Michael R. & Chapman, Jason E. & Alley, Zoe & Sheidow, Ashli J., 2022. "Randomized trial of a diversion program for property offenders with drug use," Journal of Criminal Justice, Elsevier, vol. 79(C).

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:eee:jcjust:v:63:y:2019:i:c:p:49-57. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Catherine Liu (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jcrimjus .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.