The Risk of Informal Socializing with Peers: Considering Gender Differences Across Predatory Delinquency and Substance Use

Previous research has demonstrated that adolescents who socialize with peers in unstructured and unsupervised settings are more likely to engage in deviant behavior. Research on this front has generally pooled adolescents together, suggesting that it is a risk for nearly all youth across a wide arra...

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Published in:Justice quarterly 2013-02, Vol.30 (1), p.117-143
Main Authors: Augustyn, Megan Bears, McGloin, Jean Marie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescents
Criminology
delinquency
Deviant Behavior
Drug use
Females
gender
Gender differences
Juvenile Delinquency
Males
Peer relationships
Peers
Property
Risk
routine activities
Socialization
Substance Abuse
substance use
time use
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Summary:Previous research has demonstrated that adolescents who socialize with peers in unstructured and unsupervised settings are more likely to engage in deviant behavior. Research on this front has generally pooled adolescents together, suggesting that it is a risk for nearly all youth across a wide array of deviant outcomes. The current study instead hypothesizes that the strength of the relationship between time use and different forms of deviance varies for male and female adolescents. Specifically, it proposes that unstructured and unsupervised socializing with peers will be a significantly stronger risk for predatory delinquency (i.e. violent and property crime) for male adolescents than for females, whereas it will be an equivalent risk across gender for substance use. Analyses using the AddHealth data support this hypothesis. The discussion considers the implications of these results.
ISSN:0741-8825
1745-9109
DOI:10.1080/07418825.2011.597417