In an effort to investigate and verify the developmental roots of adult criminal thinking, a meta-analysis was performed on nine social cognitive variables organized into three clusters and hypothesized to precede the criminal thinking dimensions of proactive criminal thinking, reactive criminal thinking, and criminal identity. The three proactive antecedents were moral disengagement, neutralization, and positive outcome expectancies for crime; the three reactive antecedents were hostile attribution biases, temporal discounting, and thrill/sensation seeking; and the three criminal identity antecedents were criminal self-efficacy, feared possible selves, and reflected appraisals. A series of random effects meta-analyses were performed, the results of which revealed the presence of significant pooled effect sizes for the proactive (k = 26, r = 0.34), reactive (k = 25, r = 0.25), and criminal identity (k = 11, r = 0.24) antecedents as correlates of juvenile delinquency and adult crime. Restricting the analyses to studies with prospective data indicated that each antecedent cluster successfully predicted future offending. The results of this meta-analytic review denote that social cognitive variables proposed to serve as antecedents to adult criminal thinking both correlate with and predict delinquency and general offending in adolescent populations.

为了调查和验证成人犯罪思维的发展根源，对九个社会认知变量进行了荟萃分析，这些变量分为三个集群，并假设先于主动犯罪思维、反应性犯罪思维和犯罪身份的犯罪思维维度. 三个主动前因是道德脱离接触、中和和对犯罪的积极结果预期；三个反应性前因是敌对归因偏差、时间折扣和刺激/感觉寻求；三个犯罪身份前因是犯罪自我效能感、恐惧可能的自我和反映评价。进行了一系列随机效应荟萃分析，其结果揭示了积极主动的显着汇集效应大小的存在（k = 26, r = 0.34)、反应性 ( k = 25, r = 0.25) 和犯罪身份 ( k = 11, r = 0.24) 前因是青少年犯罪和成人犯罪的相关因素。将分析限制在具有前瞻性数据的研究表明，每个先前的集群都成功地预测了未来的犯罪行为。这项荟萃分析综述的结果表明，被提议作为成人犯罪思维前因的社会认知变量既与青少年群体的犯罪和一般犯罪相关，也可以预测。