RT Article
T1 Military Service: A Pathway to Conformity or a School for Deviance?
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 6/7
SP 1046
OP 1069
A1 Orak, Ugur
A2 Walker, Mark H.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/175944779X
AB Military service has been shown to affect individuals’ criminal and deviant tendencies. Studies on military service and deviance, however, has generally focused on combat veterans, utilized cross-sectional data, and ignored the potentially differential impact of military service based on sociodemographic variations. Utilizing the Add Health data and multilevel growth curve modeling, this study intends to reveal (a) trajectories of deviance from adolescence through adulthood, (b) whether military service in young adulthood moderates these trajectories, and (c) whether any of these relationships change by race, gender, and parental education. Findings revealed that military service was associated with a reduction in rates of delinquency, aggressive behavior, and drug use over time, and these patterns did not change by sociodemographic differences.
K1 Abweichendes Verhalten
K1 Lebensverlauf
K1 Wehrdienst
K1 Multilevel
K1 turning point
DO 10.1177/0011128719850497