Objectives:

This study explores the nexus between low self-control and legal cynicism among a recent sample of at-risk youth while accounting for various features of direct and vicarious police stops.

Methods:

Analyses are based on data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, which employs a national sample of urban-born, at-risk youth.

Results:

A uniquely potent association between low self-control and legal cynicism emerged across samples with and without exposure to vicarious or direct police stops. Furthermore, among youth exposed to police stops, the link between low self-control and legal cynicism was largely robust to perceptions/features of these stops, including the degree of officer intrusiveness, arrest, perceptions of procedural justice, and youth feelings of social stigma following the stop.

Conclusions:

Programmatic efforts that both enhance the early development of self-control through mindfulness and curriculum-based interventions (e.g., Promoting Alternative THinking Strategies) and facilitate trauma-informed policing may be beneficial in curtailing the development of legal cynicism.

中文翻译：

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风险青年中的自我控制力低和法律犬儒主义：直接与替代警察接触的调查

目标：

这项研究探讨了最近的高风险青年样本中自我控制能力低下与法律愤世嫉俗之间的联系，同时也考虑了直接而替代的警察站的各种特征。

方法：

分析基于脆弱家庭和儿童福利研究的数据，该研究采用了城市出生，处于危险中的青年的全国样本。

结果：

在有和没有暴露于替代或直接警察局的情况下，样本之间出现了自我控制力低下和冷嘲热讽之间独特的有效关联。此外，在暴露于警察站的青年中，低自我控制和法律冷嘲热讽之间的联系在很大程度上对这些站的看法/特征有很强的了解，包括军官的侵犯程度，逮捕程度，对程序正义的看法以及年轻人的社会污名感。停下来之后。

结论：

通过正念和基于课程的干预措施（例如，促进替代性思维策略）来增强自我控制的早期发展并促进创伤知情的警务活动的计划性工作，可能有助于减少法律犬儒主义的发展。