@article{kuptsevych-timmer_antonaccio_botchkovar_smith_2019, title={Scared or Attached? Unraveling Important Links in Strain-Crime Relationships Among School Students}, volume={63}, ISSN={["1552-6933"]}, DOI={10.1177/0306624X18814342}, abstractNote={ Drawing on general strain theory of crime, the study employs the survey data from a random sample of 600 school students in Lviv, Ukraine, to examine how sanction risks and social bonds mediate and moderate the relationship between strain and adolescent delinquency. Findings from negative binomial regressions and the KHB decomposition procedure demonstrate that fear of sanctions and levels of social control mediate the relationships between strain and delinquency to a different degree, depending on the type of strain experienced. Results concerning conditioning effects are mixed, with only parental monitoring found to be a moderator of the strain–delinquency link. However, the direction of the interaction effect is unexpected. Future research needs to improve the specification of strain models and evaluate them in other sociocultural contexts. }, number={8}, journal={INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OFFENDER THERAPY AND COMPARATIVE CRIMINOLOGY}, author={Kuptsevych-Timmer, Anastasiia and Antonaccio, Olena and Botchkovar, Ekaterina V. and Smith, William R.}, year={2019}, month={Jun}, pages={1175–1201} }
 @article{brauer_tittle_antonaccio_2019, title={The Costs of Coercive Control: Assessing Behavioral and Mental Health Correlates of Erratic and Oppressive Coercion}, volume={36}, ISSN={["1745-9109"]}, DOI={10.1080/07418825.2017.1403643}, abstractNote={Some theorists argue that coercion’s consequences depend upon the consistency with which it is experienced. This study measures the consistency of coercive experiences across social domains and lifespan stages then tests hypotheses linking coercion’s consistency to crime, prosocial behaviors, and depressive symptoms using data from randomly selected respondents in Ukraine and Bangladesh. Descriptive analyses test theoretical claims that erratic coercion generates crime while oppressive coercion deters crime, but at the cost of suppressing prosocial behaviors and exacerbating depressive symptoms. Findings show positive associations between projected criminal behavior and coercion’s magnitude, and between relative erratic but not absolute erratic coercion and projected criminal behavior. Oppressive coercion is linked to more depressive symptoms and, contradicting theoretical expectations, higher levels of criminal intent. Overall, this study’s findings challenge widespread reliance on coercive controls to influence social outcomes by documenting higher levels of projected criminal behavior and mental health problems among more coerced respondents.}, number={2}, journal={JUSTICE QUARTERLY}, author={Brauer, Jonathan R. and Tittle, Charles R. and Antonaccio, Olena}, year={2019}, month={Feb}, pages={255–286} }
 @article{botchkovar_tittle_antonaccio_2013, title={Strain, Coping, and Socioeconomic Status: Coping Histories and Present Choices}, volume={29}, ISSN={["1573-7799"]}, DOI={10.1007/s10940-012-9177-7}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE CRIMINOLOGY}, author={Botchkovar, Ekaterina V. and Tittle, Charles R. and Antonaccio, Olena}, year={2013}, month={Jun}, pages={217–250} }
 @article{tittle_botchkovar_antonaccio_2011, title={Criminal Contemplation, National Context, and Deterrence}, volume={27}, ISSN={["1573-7799"]}, DOI={10.1007/s10940-010-9104-8}, number={2}, journal={JOURNAL OF QUANTITATIVE CRIMINOLOGY}, author={Tittle, Charles R. and Botchkovar, Ekaterina V. and Antonaccio, Olena}, year={2011}, month={Jun}, pages={225–249} }
 @article{tittle_antonaccio_botchkovar_kranidioti_2010, title={Expected utility, self-control, morality, and criminal probability}, volume={39}, ISSN={["1096-0317"]}, DOI={10.1016/j.ssresearch.2010.08.007}, abstractNote={With data from random sample household surveys conducted simultaneously in major cities in Greece and in Russia, we evaluate the import of individuals’ morality relative to expected utility and self-control in predicting criminal probability. In addition, we examine potential interactions among the three variables in predicting criminal propensity and compare their relative effects across the two samples. The results suggest that all three factors are important and mostly independent influences in explaining criminal probability. However, the estimated effects of morality are substantially stronger than those of either expected utility or self-control, and all three of these explanatory variables appear to be somewhat sensitive to cultural contexts. Overall, our findings confirm that morality plays a comparatively larger part in explaining conformity than is generally recognized by major contemporary theories, although the data cannot show whether morality is an element in rational decision making or represents a contrary “non-rational” element in accounting for human conduct.}, number={6}, journal={SOCIAL SCIENCE RESEARCH}, author={Tittle, Charles R. and Antonaccio, Olena and Botchkovar, Ekaterina and Kranidioti, Maria}, year={2010}, month={Nov}, pages={1029–1046} }
 @article{antonaccio_tittle_botchkovar_kranidiotis_2010, title={The Correlates of Crime and Deviance: Additional Evidence}, volume={47}, ISSN={["1552-731X"]}, DOI={10.1177/0022427810365678}, abstractNote={Comparable survey data collected simultaneously in major cities in Greece, Russia, and Ukraine indicate that the usual correlates of self-reported criminal/deviant behavior derived from research in well-studied, mostly Western societies, do not necessarily hold cross-nationally. The data confirm only two of six potential correlates of self-reported criminal/deviant behavior—age and deviant peer association. Two widely assumed correlates of criminal propensity—gender and marital status—prove to be somewhat unreliable and sensitive to these cultural contexts. Religiosity is generally negatively linked to crime/deviance in bivariate but not multivariate analyses. In bivariate analysis socioeconomic status (SES) proves to be highly sensitive to the investigated cultural contexts whereas in multivariate analysis SES is not significantly related in any consistent fashion to criminality in any of the three countries. These results show the value of cross-cultural research and suggest that effective explanation of criminal and deviant behavior may require more attention to cultural variations.}, number={3}, journal={JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN CRIME AND DELINQUENCY}, author={Antonaccio, Olena and Tittle, Charles R. and Botchkovar, Ekaterina and Kranidiotis, Maria}, year={2010}, month={Aug}, pages={297–328} }
 @misc{botchkovar_tittle_antonaccio_2009, title={GENERAL STRAIN THEORY: ADDITIONAL EVIDENCE USING CROSS-CULTURAL DATA}, volume={47}, ISSN={["1745-9125"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1745-9125.2009.00141.x}, abstractNote={Data from random samples of residents in major cities of Russia, Ukraine, and Greece are employed to test hypotheses about linkages among objective strain, subjective strain, anger, and criminal probability specified in general strain theory (GST). In addition, the potential conditioning effects of religiosity and self‐control on the strain/criminal probability relationship are investigated. Results show more challenge than support for GST. In particular, all supportive results are for the Ukrainian sample with the Greek and Russian samples providing little confirmation to the study's hypotheses. Although analyses show some support for the basic premises of GST, using a measure of subjective strain does not improve results, and self‐control and religiosity do not seem to condition the effects of strain on criminal probability. Overall, the findings point to contextual specificity of GST as currently formulated and suggest the need for further theorizing.}, number={1}, journal={CRIMINOLOGY}, author={Botchkovar, Ekaterina V. and Tittle, Charles R. and Antonaccio, Olena}, year={2009}, month={Feb}, pages={131–176} }
 @article{antonaccio_tittle_2008, title={Morality, self-control, and crime}, volume={46}, ISSN={["1745-9125"]}, DOI={10.1111/j.1745-9125.2008.00116.x}, abstractNote={This paper offers evidence to specify further Self‐Control Theory by investigating its predictive strength relative to morality and its interconnections with morality in accounting for criminal probability. Using random sample household survey data from Lviv, Ukraine, we confirm that self‐control is an important predictor of criminal probabilities in an unusual cultural context. However, morality is also shown to be a strong independent predictor with strength that seems to exceed substantially that of self‐control. In addition, taking morality into account significantly reduces the coefficients for self‐control, sometimes eliminating them entirely, and morality shows little interaction with self‐control in its predictions of the measures of criminal probability. The results suggest that the recently formulated Situational Action Theory, which features (weak) morality as the prime cause of criminal behavior and questions the relative importance of self‐control, should be taken seriously. Overall, the results confirm the importance of self‐control as a factor in misbehavior; yet, they also provide a mandate for greater attention to morality as a potent variable in understanding misconduct.}, number={2}, journal={CRIMINOLOGY}, author={Antonaccio, Olena and Tittle, Charles R.}, year={2008}, month={May}, pages={479–510} }
 @article{antonaccio_tittle_2007, title={A cross-national test of Bonger's theory of criminality and economic conditions}, volume={45}, DOI={10.1111/j.1745-9125.2007.00098.x}, abstractNote={Using international data for 100 countries, we test two hypotheses derived from Bonger's Marxian theory of crime. The analyses support the hypothesis that the degree of capitalism significantly predicts homicide rates, but they fail to confirm that the de‐moralization of the population (loss of moral feelings for others) mediates the relationship between capitalism and homicide. Although capitalism is not the best predictor among those considered, overall, the results underline the importance of Bonger's ideas because both capitalism and corruption (our indicator of de‐moralization) show reasonably strong relationships with homicide rates and compete with other variables commonly used as predictors of international homicide rates. The results confirm the usefulness of attempting to subject Marxian ideas to positivist, quantitative tests, with an eye to integrating Marxian theories with other mainstream theories, such as institutional anomie theory.}, number={4}, journal={Criminology}, author={Antonaccio, O. and Tittle, C. R.}, year={2007}, pages={925–958} }