RT Article
T1 The influence of popular and delinquent adolescents on school delinquency: specifying the key delinquent models
JF Journal of crime and justice
VO 40
IS 2
SP 101
OP 118
A1 Gallupe, Owen
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1727716434
AB Prior research has shown evidence for the existence of a relationship between peer and individual delinquency. It is now important to specify the mechanisms by which that relationship operates. The contribution of the current study is to identify the adolescents who are likely to act as the key delinquent models. It is expected that in schools where a large percentage of adolescents are both highly popular and highly delinquent, levels of school delinquency are likely to be highest. Using data from 112 schools in the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, this study finds that, even when controlling for neighborhood and school characteristics (including the ratio of delinquent to non-delinquent students), schools with a greater percentage of highly popular/highly delinquent students have significantly greater levels of delinquency.
K1 Popularity
K1 Delinquency
K1 Maturity gap
K1 Schools
K1 Social Learning
DO 10.1080/0735648X.2015.1070739