Glad you asked this question! You may consider search for more published articles using meta-analytic techniques. Its advent allows for the quantitative aggregation of various phenomena under consideration. For example, Gendreau, Little, and Goggin (1996) were among the first to investigate the relationship between various risk factors and recidivism among adult male offenders using meta-analytic procedures. They found that a composite measure of “criminal peers” and “criminal attitudes” was the strongest predictor of male adult offender recidivism. Subsequentmeta-analyses examining adult prison misconducts, juvenile offenders, and sexual offenders have replicated the substantive findings that criminal attitudes are a robust risk factor for criminality among various offender types and circumstances. A specific meta-analysis dedicated to the examination of criminal attitudes in the intervention and treatment process (Banse et al., 2013) extended and replicated the findings of previous meta-analyses, and assigned a causal role to criminal attitudes in criminal behavior.
References:
Banse, R., Koppehele-Gossel, J., Kistemaker, L., Werner, V. A., & Schmidt, A. F. (2013). Pro-criminal attitudes, intervention, and recidivism. Aggression and Violent Behavior, 18, 673-685.
Gendreau, P., Little, T., & Goggin, C. (1996). A meta-analysis of predictors of adult recidivism: What works! Criminology, 34, 401-433.
