RT Article
T1 Leaders and followers in juvenile offending: distinguishing correlates and adjustment to incarceration
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 43
IS 7
SP 899
OP 922
A1 Amemiya, Jamie
A1 Monahan, Kathryn C.
A1 Cauffman, Elizabeth
A2 Monahan, Kathryn C.
A2 Cauffman, Elizabeth
LA English
YR 2016
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1884945562
AB This study of 179 recently incarcerated male adolescent offenders examined how leaders and followers in juvenile offending differed across offense, demographic, intraindividual, contextual, and social domains, and how leader/follower status affected the association between facility peer misbehavior and youth?s own institutional behavior over the first month of incarceration. Results indicated that leaders were older, more criminally experienced, reported higher levels of contextual risk, yet reported lower feelings of social isolation than followers. For followers, early exposure to facility peer drug sales was especially impactful on their subsequent institutional substance use, while facility peer antisocial behavior was related concurrently to all youth?s institutional antisocial behavior at each week of incarceration. Findings suggest that leaders and followers have distinct correlates and may require differential intervention, and heightened vigilance of facility peer relations is important throughout youth?s transition to juvenile incarceration.
K1 Correlates
K1 Followers
K1 institutional behavior
K1 Juvenile Offenders
K1 Leaders
DO 10.1177/0093854815622660