Boduszek, Daniel and O’Shea, Catherine and Dhingra, Katie and Hyland, Philip (2014) Latent Class Analysis of Criminal Social Identity in a Prison Sample. Polish Psychological Bulletin, 45 (2). pp. 192-199. ISSN 1641-7844

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Abstract

This study aimed to examine the number of latent classes of criminal social identity that exist among male recidivistic prisoners. Latent class analysis was used to identify homogeneous groups of criminal social identity. Multinomial logistic regression was used to interpret the nature of the latent classes, or groups, by estimating the associationsto number of police arrests, recidivism, and violent offending while controlling for current age. The best fitting latent class model was a five-class solution: ‘High criminal social identity’ (17%), ‘High Centrality, Moderate Affect, Low Ties’ (21.7%), ‘Low Centrality, Moderate Affect, High Ties’ (13.3%),‘Low Cognitive, High Affect, Low Ties’ (24.6%), and ‘Low criminal social identity’ (23.4%). Each of the latent classes was predicted by differing external variables. Criminal social identity is best explained by five homogenous classes that display qualitative and quantitative differences.

Item Type:	Article
Keywords:	Criminal Social Identity; Latent Class Analysis; Prisoners;
Academic Unit:	Assisting Living & Learning,ALL institute Faculty of Science and Engineering > Psychology
Item ID:	19222
Identification Number:	https://doi.org/10.2478/ppb-2014-0024
Depositing User:	Philip Hyland
Date Deposited:	26 Nov 2024 12:29
Journal or Publication Title:	Polish Psychological Bulletin
Publisher:	Committee for Psychological Science PAS
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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