RT Article
T1 The Sibling Effect for Delinquency: Mediation by Proactive Criminal Thinking and Moderation by Age
JF International journal of offender therapy and comparative criminology
VO 64
IS 2/3
SP 265
OP 288
A1 Walters, Glenn D.
LA English
YR 2020
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1687160341
AB This study tested whether the sibling delinquency effect, like the peer influence effect, is mediated by proactive (planned, calculated, and amoral) criminal thinking. Youth who completed the Offending, Crime and Justice Survey (OCJS) and had a sibling living at home were divided into an early adolescent subsample (n = 795) and a mid-adolescent subsample (n = 532) after it was determined that age moderated the effect of sibling delinquency on proactive criminal thinking and serious offending. The results of a causal mediation analysis revealed a significant pathway running from sibling delinquency at Wave 1, to proactive criminal thinking at Wave 2, to serious offending at Wave 3, but only in the early adolescent subsample. These results suggest that the sibling delinquency effect may be the result of learning proactive criminal thinking in association with a delinquent sibling while still an early adolescent.
K1 Causal mediation analysis
K1 Proactive criminal thinking
K1 Sibling delinquency
DO 10.1177/0306624X19872963