RT Article
T1 A life-course approach to understanding differential relevance of deviant peers for predicting cocaine/crack use
JF Crime & delinquency
VO 67
IS 12
SP 2114
OP 2134
A1 Wojciechowski, Thomas W.
LA English
YR 2021
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1782120556
AB Deviant peer association has been identified as a risk factor for cocaine/crack use. However, understanding is more limited regarding the stability in the salience of this effect across the life-course. The present study utilized the Pathways to Desistance data to test for variance in the magnitude of the relationship between deviant peer association and cocaine/crack use using mixed effects ordered logistic modeling. Results indicated that cocaine/crack use frequency varied as a quadratic function of time. The interactions between deviant peer association and age variables indicated that the magnitude of this relationship first declined during adolescence, but then increased during early adulthood. Implications are discussed.
K1 Cocaine
K1 Crack
K1 Development
K1 Life-course
K1 Deviant Peer Association
DO 10.1177/0011128720978717