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International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
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Bonds to the Work Unit and Official Offense Status in Urban China

Lening Zhang

Department of Behavioral Science, Saint Francis College, Loretto, PA 15940, USA

Steven F. Messner

Department of Sociology, State University of New York at Albany, Albany, NY 12222 USA

This research examines the relationship between bonds to one’s work unit (danwei) in China and official criminal status, as reflected in placement in a correctional facility. The authors describe the distinctive features of the Chinese work unit and hypothesize that the strength of the worker’s bonds to his or her work unit is negatively related to the likelihood of being officially identified as a criminal. The results of multivariate logistic regression analysis for a sample of young workers from Tianjin support the hypothesis. Workers who have strong bonds to their work unit are at significantly lower risk of becoming official criminals (inmates) than are their counterparts with weaker bonds.

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 43, No. 3, 375-390 (1999)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X99433009
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