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Record W4408297734 · doi:10.1080/0735648x.2025.2474421

Homeless discrimination, criminogenic mediators and offending

2025· article· en· W4408297734 on OpenAlexafffund
Stephen W. Baron

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Crime and Justice · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicHomelessness and Social Issues
Canadian institutionsQueen's University
FundersSocial Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
KeywordsPsychology

Abstract

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Drawing on General Strain Theory (GST), the research examines the effect of discrimination against individuals experiencing homelessness on offending behaviors. Operationalized as experiences with discrimination I test the direct and indirect effect of this strain through five mediators often overlooked in the empirical work on GST: anger, depression, low constraint, criminal peers, and criminal attitudes. The findings reveal little support for a direct association between homeless discrimination and general offending. Instead, the results indicate that homeless discrimination is associated with stronger anger, greater depression, lower constraint, more criminal peers, and escalated support for attitudes promoting offending. In turn, anger, low constraint, criminal peers, and criminal attitudes (but not depression) are related to higher levels of offending, with homeless discrimination impacting criminal behavior indirectly through these 4 factors. Crime-specific results suggest homeless discrimination has an indirect effect on all crime types through criminal peers. However, other indirect effects are limited to particular offense categories (criminal attitudes-property crime; anger-violent crime; low constraint-drug selling). The findings are theoretically contextualized, and suggestions for future research are offered.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.379
Threshold uncertainty score0.394

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.045
GPT teacher head0.424
Teacher spread0.378 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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