Exposure to Persistently Delinquent Peers and Substance Use Onset: a Test of Moffitt's Social Mimicry Hypothesis

Moffitt's social mimicry hypothesis states that the sudden rise in offending during adolescence is partly the result of adolescence-limited delinquents modeling the behavior of their life-course persistent peers. We test this hypothesis using social network data from 7,742 adolescents followed...

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Authors: Widdowson, Alex O. (Author) ; Osgood, D. Wayne (Author) ; Ranson, J.W. Andrew (Author) ; Rulison, Kelly L. (Author) ; Siennick, Sonja E. (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2020
In: Crime & delinquency
Year: 2020, Volume: 66, Issue: 3, Pages: 420-445
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Moffitt, Terrie E.
Adolescent limited
Peer influence
Substance use