The Relationship between Human Needs and Criminogenic Needs |
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Authors: | Tony Ward Claire Stewart |
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Affiliation: | 1. Department of Criminology , University of Melbourne , 234 Queensberry Street, Melbourne, 3010;2. Institute of Disability Studies , Deakin University , 221 Burwood Highway, Burwood, Melbourne, 3125, Australia |
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Abstract: | Abstract Precipitators are personal attributes enhancing a person's likelihood of becoming criminally victimized. The present experiment focuses on walking style synchrony as a nonverbal determinant of differential perceptions. Findings suggest that walking styles associated with a lack of interactional synchrony - a lack of organized movement, a lack of ‘wholeness’, a lack of flowing motion - result in higher ratings of robbery potential and in lower ratings of perceived self-confidence of a target relative to more synchronous walking styles. Analyses also suggest that high criminal involvement is associated with more easily construing situations as ‘opportunistic’. Some implications for assertiveness and self-defense training programs are discussed. |
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Keywords: | eyewitness identification mug shot exposure mug shot commitment |
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