APS

2025 APS Annual Convention · 2025

Deterrence: A Product of Risk and Reward

Washington, DC · May 2025

Poster · Developmental

Session: Poster Session IV

Authors

Abstract

This study seeks to examine how adolescents’ arrest experiences influence their perceptions of crime and, ultimately, their future criminal behavior in a sample of justice-involved adolescents. We found that youth who get away with more crimes are more likely to find them thrilling and, subsequently, reoffend.

Criminal Justice