A Social Process Model of Adolescent Deviance: Combining Social Control and Differential Association Perspectives

Adolescent Development in Interpersonal Context

“…Two specific lines of work have dominated: studies of the development of responsibility (e.g., Cauffman & Steinberg, 2000;Greenberger & Sorenson, 1974;Lamborn et al, 1991;Steinberg et al, 1994) and studies of resistance to peer pressure, especially in antisocial situations (Berndt, 1979;B. Brown et al, 1986;Erickson, Crosnoe, & Dornbusch, 2000;Krosnick & Judd, 1982;Steinberg & Silverberg, 1986). According to these socialization models, parents facilitate the development of behavioral autonomy in four chief ways: (1) by serving as models of competent decision-makers; (2) by encouraging independent decision making in the family context; (3) by rewarding independent decision making outside the family context; and (4) by instilling in the adolescent a more general sense of self-efficacy through the use of parenting that is both responsive and demanding (Darling & Steinberg, 1993).…”

An Empirical Investigation of Social Bonds and Juvenile Delinquency in Hong Kong

“…For instance, peer attachment was found to be a stronger predicting factor for male delinquency than their female counterparts by Rosenbaum (1987), but Anderson et al (1999) stated the opposite. Family attachment, conversely, was found to be a stronger predictor for female delinquency than for their male counterparts (Alarid et al 2000;Erikson et al 2000;Huebner and Betts 2002), whereas some studies revealed the opposite (Anderson et al 1999;Canter 1982). In terms of commitment, Rosenbaum and Lasley (1990) affirmed that commitment was strongly related to male delinquency, while Dukes and Stein (2001) reported a stronger association of commitment with female than male delinquency, particularly with regards to school commitment (Friedman and Rosenbaum 1988).…”

Adolescent Susceptibility to Deviant Peer Pressure: Does Gender Matter?

“…Developmentally, peer reference groups become increasingly salient during adolescence, and most risk-taking behaviors occur within the peer context (Crosnoe and McNeely 2008). Although some studies suggest that adolescent males engage in more of some types of risk-taking behaviors (i.e., substance use and delinquency; Erickson et al 2000) and have more deviant peer affiliations than females (Mears et al 1998;Svensson 2003), it remains unclear "whether the social processes [emphasis added] leading to these outcomes also differ by gender" (Erickson et al 2000, p. 402).…”