Participation in Interscholastic Athletics and Delinquency: A Preliminary Study

Schäfer, Walter Ernst

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“…Empirical answers to these questions are surprisingly difficult to come by. The idea was first empirically tested in the late 1960s by the sociologist W. Schafer (1969), inspired by advances in stratification research and the attention that James Coleman (1961, 1965) devoted to sport in his classic studies of youth and school culture.…”

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Reassessing the Relationship Between High School Sports Participation and Deviance: Evidence of Enduring, Bifurcated Effects

Hartmann

Massoglia

2007

The Sociological Quarterly

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Despite its longstanding popular appeal, the idea that athletic activity is a deterrent to crime and delinquency suffers from a distinct lack of empirical support. This paper tests the hypotheses that the relationship between high school sports participation and deviance varies by both type of deviant behavior and level of athletic involvement. The analysis is based upon longitudinal data focusing on the effects of involvement in high school sports, the country's largest institutional setting for youth sports participation, in early adulthood. We find that the relationship between athletic involvement and deviance varies significantly depending upon the deviant behaviors examined. Specifically, we find that shop-lifting decreases with sports participation, while drunken driving increases. Moreover, these effects extend further into the life course (age 30) than has been demonstrated in any previous study and hold across all our measures of sports participation. Several potential explanatory mechanisms are evaluated. The implications of these enduring, bifurcated effects are discussed.

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Massoglia

2007

The Sociological Quarterly

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“…We could, like Toby and others (e.g., Berry and Polk, 1971; Rhodes and Reiss, 1969), argue for or rely strictly on academic statusi.e., grade point averages or English marks-as our primary measure of school commitment. And empirically, Schafer (1969) has offered data indicating that athletic participation is independently related to delinquent behavior. However, we must acknowledge the fact that there is obviously more to the school experience than just earning an acceptable academic record.…”

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School Commitment, Youth Rebellion, and Delinquency

Kelly¹,

Pink²

1973

Criminology

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William T: Pinkr ecently social scientists, in attempting to understand the rise of particularly rebellious and delinquent behavior, have begun to direct their attention to the differential school statuses that students often occupy within the educational system. For example, Toby ( 1 957), in his concentration on those students who are situated in a failure status, has suggested that failure can serve as a major catalyst in the production of (especially gang) delinquency. Presumably, his failing students, in being aware of their low position in the academic hierarchy, reject the conventional value system of AUTHORS NOTE: Z%he research on which this paper is based was

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“…as diferenças entre peritos e não peritos estendem-se, ainda, à natureza dos indicadores observados (71,78) . a natureza dos indicadores fixados pelos peritos diferem daqueles para os quais os não peritos deslocam a sua atenção, como vem sendo demonstrado em vários estudos (e.g.…”

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Participation in Interscholastic Athletics and Delinquency: A Preliminary Study

Cited by 46 publications

References 5 publications

Reassessing the Relationship Between High School Sports Participation and Deviance: Evidence of Enduring, Bifurcated Effects

Reassessing the Relationship Between High School Sports Participation and Deviance: Evidence of Enduring, Bifurcated Effects

School Commitment, Youth Rebellion, and Delinquency

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