RT Article
T1 Learning Disabilities and Delinquency: The (Non-)mediating and (Non-)moderating Role of Peer Deviance
JF Canadian journal of criminology and criminal justice
VO 65
IS 4
SP 24
OP 50
A1 Etmanski, Brittany
A2 Ryan, Ashley
A2 Gallupe, Owen
LA English
YR 2023
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1892414058
AB This study assesses the role of peer deviance in the relationship between learning disabilities and violence and property crime. Two possibilities are explored: (a) that youths with a learning disability tend to have more deviant peers which in turn increases delinquent involvement (a mediating effect) and (b) that youths with a learning disability are more strongly influenced by the deviance of their peers (a moderating effect). We draw on the causality literature and employ a causal directed acyclic graph. Using data from the first two waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 6,391), we find results that are not in line with either possibility. While adolescents with learning disabilities are shown to exhibit higher levels of violence (but not property crime), peer deviance is not found to play either a mediating or a moderating role. We recommend future work test alternative mediating pathways, such as through victimization and self-control.
K1 Add Health
K1 apprentissage social
K1 Causality
K1 causalité
K1 Delinquency
K1 directed acyclic graph
K1 Délinquance
K1 graphe acyclique dirigé
K1 influence des pairs
K1 LEARNING disabilities
K1 Peer influence
K1 Social learning
K1 troubles de l’apprentissage
DO 10.3138/cjccj-2023-0047