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Friendship Networks and Delinquency: The Relative Nature of Peer Delinquency

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  • Dana L. Haynie

    (The Ohio State University, Department of Sociology)

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Although acknowledging the importance of adolescent friendships in the etiology of delinquency, prior studies have yet to provide a detailed examination of the role of actual friendship networks in delinquency. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (1995–1996), this study's incorporation of friendship networks allows for a more rigorous conceptualization and measurement of peer delinquency based on carefully defined networks of adolescent friendships. Findings illustrate that friendship networks are very heterogenous in terms of members' participation in delinquent behavior with the majority of adolescents belonging to networks containing both delinquent and non-delinquent friends. In support of differential association's premise that delinquent behavior is influenced by the ratio of definitions favorable to those unfavorable to law violation (Sutherland, 1947), the proportion of delinquent friends in a respondent's network is most strongly associated with respondents' subsequent delinquency. This relative measure of peer delinquency is preferable to a measure of the absolute level of delinquency occurring by friends, the average delinquency committed by friends, or the absolute number of delinquent friends. Enmeshment in a friendship network where consensus about the appropriateness of delinquency is maximized (i.e., all friends are delinquent or non-delinquent) most effectively constrains the behaviors of network members to resemble the groups' behavior.

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  • Dana L. Haynie, 2002. "Friendship Networks and Delinquency: The Relative Nature of Peer Delinquency," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 18(2), pages 99-134, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:joqcri:v:18:y:2002:i:2:d:10.1023_a:1015227414929
    DOI: 10.1023/A:1015227414929
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    2. Jacob T. N. Young, 2014. "A Sensitivity Analysis of Egocentric Measures of Peer Delinquency to Latent Homophily: A Research Note," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 30(3), pages 373-387, September.
    3. Carter Rees & Greg Pogarsky, 2011. "One Bad Apple May Not Spoil the Whole Bunch: Best Friends and Adolescent Delinquency," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 27(2), pages 197-223, June.
    4. Danielle C. Payne & Benjamin Cornwell, 2007. "Reconsidering Peer Influences on Delinquency: Do Less Proximate Contacts Matter?," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 23(2), pages 127-149, June.
    5. Joseph A. Schwartz & Starr J. Solomon & Bradon A. Valgardson, 2019. "Socialization, Selection, or Both? The Role of Gene–Environment Interplay in the Association Between Exposure to Antisocial Peers and Delinquency," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 35(1), pages 1-26, March.
    6. David R. Schaefer, 2018. "A Network Analysis of Factors Leading Adolescents to Befriend Substance-Using Peers," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 34(1), pages 275-312, March.
    7. Jacob T. N. Young, 2011. "How Do They ‘End Up Together’? A Social Network Analysis of Self-Control, Homophily, and Adolescent Relationships," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 27(3), pages 251-273, September.
    8. Dana L. Haynie & Eric Silver & Brent Teasdale, 2006. "Neighborhood Characteristics, Peer Networks, and Adolescent Violence," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 22(2), pages 147-169, June.
    9. Evelien M. Hoeben & D. Wayne Osgood & Sonja E. Siennick & Frank M. Weerman, 2021. "Hanging Out with the Wrong Crowd? The Role of Unstructured Socializing in Adolescents’ Specialization in Delinquency and Substance Use," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 37(1), pages 141-177, March.
    10. Cesar J. Rebellon & Kathryn L. Modecki, 2014. "Accounting for Projection Bias in Models of Delinquent Peer Influence: The Utility and Limits of Latent Variable Approaches," Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Springer, vol. 30(2), pages 163-186, June.

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