RT Article
T1 Influence of Peer Reactions and Student Attitudes on Student Deviance: Differences Between Japan and the United States
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 63
IS 10
SP 1876
OP 1895
A1 Kobayashi, Emiko
A1 Farrington, David 1944-
A2 Farrington, David 1944-
LA English
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1671181751
AB The current study examines the cross-cultural applicability of Akers' social learning theory in explaining why Japanese commit fewer deviant acts than Americans. It is predicted that deviance would be less common in Japan because Japanese have less favorable attitudes toward deviance, which in turn are attributable to less favorable peer reactions to deviance. Analyses of comparable survey data from college students in Japan (N = 583) and the United States (N = 615) provide mixed support for our arguments. As expected, Japanese students had less favorable attitudes toward deviance because they had peers who reacted less favorably to deviance. Contrary to expectation, however, even after controlling for student attitudes toward deviance and peer reactions to deviance, the initially large difference between the two samples in student deviance remained significant. This was at least partly because, in Japan, compared with the United States, peer reactions and student attitudes had significantly less influence on student deviance.
K1 Cross-cultural criminology
K1 Peer reactions to deviance
K1 Student attitudes toward deviance
K1 Student deviance
K1 Japan–U.S. comparison
DO 10.1177/0306624X19832168