The role of peer delinquency and unstructured socializing in explaining delinquency and substance use: A state-of-the-art review

Hoeben, Evelien M.; Meldrum, Ryan C.; Walker, D’Andre; Young, Jacob T.N.

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2016.08.001

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“…Osgood, Wilson, O'Malley, Bachman, & Johnston, (1996) have argued that informal socializing with peers can increase the risk of offending. Accordingly, the presence of peers makes delinquent acts more easy, fun and rewarding, while the absence of authority figures reduces the opportunity for social control responses to delinquency (Hoeben, Meldrum, & Young, 2016). This is consistent with empirical findings that show a negative relationship between structured activities and antisocial behavior (Mahoney & Stattin, 2000), as well as pro-social effects of structured "after school" activities in girls (Hansen, Larson, & Dworkin, 2003).…”

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Adolescent Female Offenders’ Subjective Experiences of How Peers Influence Norm-Breaking Behavior

Azad

Hau

Karlsson

2017

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Delinquent peers have a strong influence on adolescent delinquent behavior. However, few studies have investigated adolescents', and in particular young females', own perspectives of the role of peers on their delinquent behavior. The purpose of the present study was to explore how young female offenders described their delinquent behavior and more specifically the role they assign to peer relations in committing or avoiding delinquent acts. Nine female adolescents, sentenced to youth service, were interviewed, and the data was analyzed using the Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) method. The results showed that committing crimes and taking drugs with peers were portrayed as a way for the female delinquents to socialize. Delinquent and pro-social activities with peers appear to serve similar developmental functions in the sense that it is described to fulfill the same developmental needs. The young offenders also described collectively created pressures and norms in the peer group as the main contributing factor to their norm-breaking behavior, where they described being both recipients and producers of influence in the group. Another important finding was that the female offenders showed an awareness of the importance of pro-social peers and the need to eliminate delinquent friends from their peer network in order to help them refrain from deviant behavior. Implications for prevention and intervention are discussed.

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Section: Implications and Future Directionssupporting

confidence: 87%

Adolescent Female Offenders’ Subjective Experiences of How Peers Influence Norm-Breaking Behavior

Azad

Hau

Karlsson

2017

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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“…In support of social learning theory, adolescents whose friends and romantic partners use alcohol increase their own alcohol use over time, relative to adolescents whose peers do not use alcohol (Cheadle, Walsemann, & Goosby, ; Leung, Toumbourou, & Hemphill, ; Osgood et al., ). In support of social ecological explanations of alcohol use, unstructured socializing with friends predicts alcohol use (Hoeben, Meldrum, & Young, ; Sun & Longazel, ).…”

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Sources of Social Influence on Adolescents’ Alcohol Use

Wesche

Kreager

Lefkowitz³

2018

J of Research on Adolesc

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The present research examines social influences on self-reported frequency of drunkenness in a longitudinal sample of 1,439 adolescents (46% female, 90% White, mean age = 14 at baseline) with social network measures from friends, romantic partners, and romantic partners' friends. We build on past research by addressing multiple mechanisms of social influence-peers' frequency of drunkenness, alcohol-related attitudes, and unstructured socializing-across relationship types. Adolescents' drunkenness frequency increased when their friends' and partners' friends' drunkenness frequency increased and when their romantic partners' positive alcohol-related attitudes increased. Furthermore, the association between unstructured socializing and frequency of drunkenness was stronger for older than younger adolescents. Results advance understanding of the social transmission of alcohol use in adolescence and inform intervention efforts.

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“…The selection effect explains why adolescents who engage in more risky behaviors are prospectively more likely to affiliate with deviant peers. The influence, or socialization, effect refers to the process by which adolescents follow the lead of their friends; that is, they are more likely to engage in risky behaviors when affiliating with deviant friends (Hoeben, Meldrum, & Young, 2016). This influence of peers emerges even after controlling for selection effects and adolescents' own previous risky behaviors (Maxwell, 2002;Reitz, Dekovi c, Meijer, & Engels, 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

Deviant Peers and Adolescent Risky Behaviors: The Protective Effect of Nonverbal Display of Parental Warmth

Daspe

Arbel

Ramos

et al. 2018

J of Research on Adolesc

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This study examines whether nonverbal displays of parents' warmth during an in-lab conflict discussion mitigate the links between affiliation with deviant peers and risky behaviors. A sample of 107 youth and their parents participated in a study spanning from mid-adolescence (T1) to late adolescence (T2). At T1, family members discussed a contentious issue, which was coded for parents' nonverbal warmth. At T1 and T2, youth reported on their friends' and their own risky behaviors. Fathers' warmth moderated each prospective association between deviant peers and risky behaviors. Mothers' warmth did not emerge as a significant moderator. Girls, in particular, benefitted from fathers' warmth as a buffer in the trajectory from T1 risky behaviors to T2 risky behaviors and deviant peers.

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The role of peer delinquency and unstructured socializing in explaining delinquency and substance use: A state-of-the-art review

Cited by 168 publications

References 209 publications

Adolescent Female Offenders’ Subjective Experiences of How Peers Influence Norm-Breaking Behavior

Adolescent Female Offenders’ Subjective Experiences of How Peers Influence Norm-Breaking Behavior

Sources of Social Influence on Adolescents’ Alcohol Use

Deviant Peers and Adolescent Risky Behaviors: The Protective Effect of Nonverbal Display of Parental Warmth

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