Data · dataset · 2008
Study on the Tattoo Behavior and its Related Factors for the Juvenile Violent Offenders
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The primary purposes of this study were to investigate the juvenile violent offenders’ tattooing behavior and its relationships with their demographics, needs of sensation seeking, self-identity, emotion states, idolatry, and attitudes toward tattooing. 1,280 subjects were administered by the tattoo questionnaire.
Description
The main findings show that 52.8% of the juvenile violent offenders experienced tattooing and most of their age are at 16 to 18.
Most of them are dropped from junior high school, unemployed, and low SES. Most of them had one or two offense recorders, arrested at the age 13 to 15 for the first time, one time incarceration, with more than four offender friends. Most subjects tattooed at the age 13 to 15, and made a decision to tattoo without consideration.
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Most tattoos were made by their friends and tattooed at their friends’ house. Over two-thirds of tattooed subjects want to clean their tattoos, because they are afraid of being rejected by new friends. Thirteen percent of tattooed subjects have join the gangs.
Tattooed subject were more involved in substance abuse than non-tattooed ones. The subjects’ desire of seeking unconventional behaviors, identification with idols, positive and negative attitudes toward tattoos, and self-confidence can explain about 41% of the variance of the willingness of tattooing. Age, education, pre-tattooing, numbers of incarceration, numbers of criminal family members, willingness of tattooing, negative emotion, and identification with idols can discriminate correctly 75.5% of the tattooed and non-tattooed subjects.
The further applications for this study were also discussed.
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