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56 J. Res. Crime & Delinquency 3 (2019)

handle is hein.journals/jrcd56 and id is 1 raw text is: Article journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 2019, Vol. 56(l) 3-41 @ The Author(s) 2018 Article reuse guidelines: Delinquency:sagepub.com/journals-perissions DOl: 10.1177/0022427818789752 Understandingjournals.sagepub.com/hoe/Jrc the Person-situation OGE Interaction through Item Response Theory Kyle J. Thomas' Abstract Objectives: I argue that a person-situation complex of delinquent rationaliza- tions can be conceptualized by relating rationalizations to item response the- ory (IRT), where approval of delinquency is predominately a function of the individual willingness to rationalize (0j) and situational difficulty of applying a rationalization (b;). This framework offers testable predictions and addresses extant criticisms. Method: Adolescents from a public high school (N = 223) and subjects from the National Youth Survey (N = 1,436) were asked their degree of approval for delinquency under various circumstances. Graded response models assessed the joint effects of individual and situational characteristics on approval of delinquency. I test whether differences in self-reported offending (SRO) and willingness to offend (WTO) are con- sistent with predictions derived from IRT models. Results: Approval of Department of Criminology and Criminal justice, University of Missouri-St. Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA Corresponding Author: Kyle J. Thomas, Department of Criminology and Criminal justice, University of Missouri- St. Louis, 331 Lucas Hall, St. Louis, MO 63121, USA. Email: thomaskj@umsl.edu

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