Self-control and deviant peer network structure

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 35-72

  McGloin, Jean Marie ^a   O'Neill Shermer, Lauren ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b WIDENER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Networks; Peer deviance; Self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149218271     PISSN: 00224278     EISSN: 1552731X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0022427808326585     Document Type: Article

References (103)

1. Agnew, Robert. 1991. " The Interactive Effect of Peer Variables on Delinquency." Criminology 29: 47-72.
2. Aiken, Leona S. and Stephen G. West. Multiple Regression: Testing and Interpreting Interactions. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
3. Akers, Ronald L. 1985. Deviant Behavior: A Social Learning Approach. 3 rd ed. Belmont, CA.: Wadsworth.
4. Akers, Ronald L. 1998. Social Learning and Social Structure: A General Theory of Crime and Deviance. Boston: Northeastern University Press.
5. Baron, Stephen W. 2003. " Self-Control, Social Consequences, and Criminal Behavior: Street Youth and the General Theory of Crime." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 40: 403-25.
6. Bauman, Karl E. and Lynn A. Fisher. 1986. " On the Measurement of Friend Behavior in Research on Friend Influence and Selection: Findings From Longitudinal Studies of Adolescent Smoking and Drinking." Journal of Youth and Adolescence 15: 345-53.
7. Bjorkqvist, Kaj, Karin Osterman, and Ari Kaukiainen. 1992. " The Development of Direct and Indirect Aggressive Strategies in Males and Females." In Kaj Bjorkqvist and Pirkko Niemelii (Eds.), Of Mice and Women: Aspects of Female aggression (pp. 51-64). San Diego, CA: Academic Press.
8. Broidy, Lisa and Robert Agnew. 1997. " Gender and Crime: A General Strain Theory Perspective." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 34: 275-99.
9. Brownfield, David and Ann Marie Sorenson. 1993. " Self-Control and Juvenile Delinquency: Theoretical Issues and an Empirical Assessment of Selected Elements of a General Theory of Crime." Deviant Behavior 14: 243-64.
10. Burgess, Robert and Ronald L. Akers. 1966. " A Differential Association-Reinforcement Theory of Criminal Behavior." Social Problems 14: 363-83.
11. Burt, Ronald S. 1992. Structural Holes: The Social Structure of Competition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
12. Cairns, Robert B., Beverly D. Cairns, Holly J. Neckerman, Scott D. Gest, and Jean-Louis Gariepy. 1988. " Social Networks and Aggressive Behavior: Peer Support or Peer Rejection? " Developmental Psychology 24: 813-23.
13. Cairns, Robert B., Man-Chi Leung, Lisa Buchanan, and Beverley D. Cairns. 1995. " Friendships and Social Networks in Adolescence: Fluidity, Reliability, and Interrelations." Child Development 66: 1330-45.
14. Cameron, A. Colin and Pravin K. Trivedi. 1986. " Econometric Models Based on Count Data: Comparisons and Applications of Some Estimators and Tests." Journal of Applied Econometrics 1: 29-53.
15. Chantala, Kim and Joyce Tabor. 1999. " Strategies to Perform a Design-Based Analysis Using the Add Health Data." Available at http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/data/using/guides/weight1.pdf
16. Chapple, Constance L. 2005. " Self-Control, Peer Relations, and Delinquency " Justice Quarterly 22: 89-106.
17. Cloward, R.A. 1959. " Illegitimate Means, Anomie, and Deviant Behavior." American Sociological Review 24: 164-76.
18. Coie, J.D., M. Belding, and M. Underwood. 1988. " Aggression and Peer Rejection in Childhood." Pp. 125-58 in Advances in Clinical Child Psychology, Vol. 11, edited by B. B. Lahey and A. E. Kazdin. New York: Plenum.
19. Coles, Nigel. 2001. " It's Not What You Know-It's Who You Know That Counts: Analysing Serious Crime Groups as Social Networks." British Journal of Criminology 41: 580-94.
20. Dishion, T.J., D. Capaldi, K.M. Spracklen, and F. Li. 1995. " Peer Ecology of Male Adolescent Drug Use." Development and Psychopathology 7: 803-24.
21. Dodge, Kenneth, V. Lansford, J.E. Burks, J.E. Bates, G.S. Pettit, R.A. Fontaine, and J.M. Price. 2003. " Peer Rejection and Social Information-Processing Factors in the Development of Aggressive Behavior Problems in Children " Child Development 74: 374-93.
22. Doherty, Elaine E. 2007. " Self-Control, Social Bonds, and Desistance: A Test of Life-Course Interdependence." Criminology 44: 807-33.
23. Ennett, Susan T. and Karl E. Bauman. 1993. " Peer Group Structure and Adolescent Cigarette Smoking: A Social Network Analysis." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 34: 226-36.
24. Evans, T. David, Francis T. Cullen, and Velmer S. Burton, Jr. 1997. " The Social Consequences of Self-Control: Testing the General Theory of Crime " Criminology 35: 475-504.
25. Fagot, B.L. and R. Hagan. 1985. " Aggression in Toddlers' Responses to the Assertive Acts of Boys and Girls." Sex Roles 72: 341-51.
26. Fergusson, D.M. and L.J. Horwood. 1999. " Prospective Childhood Predictors of Deviant Peer Affiliations in Adolescence." Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 40: 581-92.
27. Giordano, Peggy C. 1995. " The Wider Circle of Friends in Adolescence." American Journal of Sociology 101: 661-97.
28. Giordano, Peggy C., Stephen A. Cernkovich, and Donna D. Holland. 2003. " Changes in Friendship Relations Over the Life Course: Implications for Desistance From Crime." Criminology 41: 293-327.
29. Giordano, Peggy, Stephen A. Cernkovich, and M.D. Pugh. 1986. " Friendships and Delinquency." American Journal of Sociology 91: 1170-1202.
30. Glueck, Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck. 1950. Unraveling Juvenile Delinquency. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
31. Goldstein, S.E., P.E. Davis-Keen, and Jacquelynne S. Eccles. 2005. " Parents, Peers, and Problem Behavior: A Longitudinal Investigation of the Impact of Relationship Perceptions and Characteristics on the Development of Adolescent Problem Behavior." Developmental Psychology 41: 401-13.
32. Gottfredson, Michael R. and Travis Hirschi. 1990. A General Theory of Crime. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
33. Granovetter, M. 1973. " The Strength of Weak Ties." American Journal of Sociology 81: 1287-1303.
34. Hagan, John. 1993. " The Social Embeddedness of Crime and Unemployment." Criminology 31: 465-91.
35. Hanneman, Robert and Mark Riddle. 2005. Introduction to Social Network Methods. Riverside University of California, Riverside.
36. Hartjen, Clayton A. and S. Priyadarsini. 2003. " Gender, Peers, and Delinquency: A Study of Boys and Girls in Rural France " Youth & Society 34: 387-414.
37. Hawkins, J. David and Mark W. Fraser. 1985. ' The Social Networks of Street Drug Users: A Comparison of Two Theories." Social Work Research & Abstracts, 21: 3-12.
38. Hay, Carter and Walter Forrest. 2006. " The Development of Self-Control: Examining Self-Control Theory's Stability Thesis." Criminology 44: 739-74.
39. Haynie, Dana and Wayne Osgood. 2005. " Reconsidering Peers and Delinquency: How Do Peers Matter ?" Social Forces 84: 1109-30.
40. Haynie, Dana L. 2001. " Delinquent Peers Revisited: Does Network Structure Matter? " American Journal of Sociology 106: 1013-57.
41. Haynie, Dana L. 2002. " Friendship Networks and Delinquency: The Relative Nature of Peer Delinquency." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 18: 99-134.
42. Haynie, Dana L., Peggy C. Giordano, and W.D. Manning. 2005. " Adolescent Romantic Relationships and Delinquency Involvement." Criminology 43: 177-210.
43. Haynie, Dana L. and Suzanne McHugh. 2003. " Sibling Deviance: In the Shadows of Mutual and Unique Friendship Effects? " Criminology 41: 355-91.
44. Hirschi, Travis. 1969. Causes of Delinquency. Berkeley: University of California Press.
45. Hirschi, Travis and Michael R. Gottfredson. 1993. " Commentary: Testing the General Theory of Crime." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 30: 47-54.
46. Hirschi, Travis and Michael R. Gottfredson. 2000. " In Defense of Self-Control " Theoretical Criminology 4: 55-69.
47. Hochstetler, Andy. 2001. " Sprees and Runs: Opportunity Construction and Criminal Episodes." Deviant Behavior: An Interdisciplinary Journal 23: 45-73.
48. Kandel, Denise B. 1996. " The Parental and Peer Contexts of Adolescent Deviance: An Algebra of Interpersonal Influences." Journal of Drug Issues 26: 289-315.
49. Kandel, Denise B. and Mark Davies. 1991. " Friendship Networks, Intimacy and Illicit Drug Use in Young Adulthood: A Comparison of Two Competing Theories." Criminology 29: 601-29.
50. Klein, Malcolm W. 1995. The American Street Gang. New York: Oxford University Press.
51. Krohn, Marvin D. 1986. " The Web of Conformity: A Network Approach to the Explanation of Delinquent Behavior." Social Problems 33: 81-93.
52. Kruttschnitt, Candace. 1996. " Contributions of Quantitative Methods to the Study of Gender and Crime, or Bootstrapping Our Way Into the Theoretical Thicket." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 12: 135-61.
53. Lacourse, Eric, Daniel Nagin, Richard E. Tremblay, Frank Vitaro and Michel Claes. 2003. " Developmental Trajectories of Boys' Delinquent Group Membership and Facilitation of Violent Behaviors During Adolescence." Development and Psychopathology 15: 183-97.
54. Ladd, Gary W. 1999. " Peer Relationships and Social Competence During Early and Middle Childhood." Annual Review of Psychology 50: 333-59.
55. Land, Kenneth C., Patricia L. McCall, and Daniel S. Nagin. 1996. " A Comparison of Poisson, Negative Binomial, and Semiparametric Mixed Poisson Regression Models: With Empirical Applications to Criminal Careers Data." Sociological Methods and Research 24: 387-442.
56. Lin, Nan. 1999. " Social Networks and Status Attainment." Annual Review of Sociology 25: 467-87.
57. Longshore, Douglas, Eunice Chang, and Shih-chao Hsieh. 2004. " Self-Control and Social Bonds: A Combined Control Perspective on Deviance " Crime & Delinquency 50: 542-64.
58. Marcus, Robert F. 1996. " The Friendships of Delinquents." Adolescence 31: 145-59.
59. Matsueda, Ross L. and K. Anderson. 1998. " The Dynamics of Delinquent Peers and Delinquent Behavior." Criminology 36: 269-99.
60. McClelland, Gary H. and Charles M. Judd. 1993. " Statistical Difficulties of Detecting Interactions and Moderator Effects." Psychological Bulletin 114: 376-90.
61. McGloin, Jean M., Travis C. Pratt, and Jeffrey Maahs. 2004. " Rethinking the IQ-Delinquency Relationship: A Longitudinal Analysis of Multiple Theoretical Models " Justice Quarterly 21: 603-35.
62. McGloin, Jean M., Christopher J. Sullivan, Alex R. Piquero, and Travis C. Pratt. 2007. " Explaining Qualitative Change in Offending: Revisiting Specialization in the Short-Term." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 44: 321-46.
63. Mears, Daniel P., M. Ploeger, and Mark Warr. 1998. " Explaining the Gender Gap in Delinquency: Peer Influence and Moral Evaluations of Behavior." Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency 35: 251-66.
64. Moffitt, Terrie E. 1993. " Life-Course-Persistent and Adolescence-Limited Antisocial Behavior: A Developmental Taxonomy." Psychological Review 100: 674-701.
65. Morselli, Carlo and Pierre Tremblay. 2004. " Criminal Achievement, Offender Networks and the Benefits of Low Self-Control " Criminology 42: 773-804.
66. Morselli, Carlo, Pierre Tremblay, and Bill McCarthy. 2006. " Mentors of Criminal Achievement." Criminology 44: 17-43.
67. Mullins, C. and R. Wright. 1003. " Gender, Social Networks, and Residential Burglary." Criminology 41: 1601-28.
68. Nagin, Daniel S. and Raymond Paternoster. 1991. " Population Heterogeneity and State Dependence: State of the Evidence and Directions for Future Research." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 16: 117-44.
69. Osgood, Wayne D. 2000. " Poisson-Based Regression Analysis of Aggregate Crime Rates." Journal of Quantitative Criminology 16: 21-43.
70. Osgood, D. Wayne and Amy L. Anderson. 2004. " Unstructured Socializing and Rates of Delinquency." Criminology 42: 519-49.
71. Osgood, Wayne D., Janet K. Wilson, and Patrick M. O'Malley. 1996. " Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior." American Sociological Review 5: 635-55.
72. Paternoster, Raymond, Robert Brame, Paul Mazerolle, and Alex Piquero. 1998. " Using the Correct Statistical Test for the Equality of Regression Coefficients." Criminology 36: 859-866.
73. Perrone, Dina, Christopher J. Sullivan, Travis C. Pratt, and Satenik Margaryan. 2004. " Parental Efficacy, Self-Control, and Delinquency: A Test of a General Theory of Crime on a Nationally Representative Sample of Youth " International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology 48: 298-312.
74. Peterson, Dana, Jody Miller, and Finn-Aage Esbensen. 2001. " The Impact of Sex Composition on Gangs and Gang Member Delinquency." Criminology 39: 411-39.
75. Pettersson, Tove. 2003. " Ethnicity and Violent Crime: The Ethnic Structure of Networks of Youths Suspected of Violent Offenses in Stockholm." Journal of Scandinavian Studies in Criminology and Crime Prevention 4: 143-61.
76. Piquero, Nicole L., Angela R. Gover, J.M. MacDonald, and Alex R. Piquero. 2005. " Peers on Delinquency: Does Gender Matter? " Youth Society 36: 251-75.
77. Pleydon, A.P. and J.G. Schner. 2001. " Female Adolescent Friendship and Delinquent Behavior." Adolescence 36: 189-204.
78. Podolny, Joel M. and James Baron. 1997. " Social Networks and Mobility in the Work Place." American Sociological Review 62: 673-94.
79. Pratt, Travis C. and Francis T. Cullen. 2000. " The Empirical Status of Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory of Crime: A Meta-Analysis " Criminology 38: 931-64.
80. Rys, G.S. and G.C. Bear. 1997. " Relational Aggression and Peer Relations: Gender and Development Issues " Merrill-Palmer Quarterly 43: 87-106.
81. Sarnecki, Jerzy. 2001. Delinquent Networks: Youth Co-Offending in Stockholm. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
82. Schreck, Christopher J., Bonnie S. Fisher, and J. Mitchell Miller. 2004. " The Social Context of Violent Victimization: A Study of the Delinquent Peer Effect." Justice Quarterly 21: 23-47.
83. Schreck, Christopher J., Richard A. Wright, and J. Mitchell Miller. 2002. " A Study of Individual and Situational Antecedents of Violent Victimization." Justice Quarterly 19: 159-80.
84. Short, James F., Jr. and Fred L. Strodtbeck. 1965. Group Process and Gang Delinquency. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
85. Simpson, Sally S., and Lori Elis. 1995. " Doing Gender: Sorting Out the Caste and Crime Conundrum." Criminology 33: 47-81.
86. Smith, Sandra S. 2005. " 'Don't Put My Name on It': Social Capital Activation and Job-Finding Assistance Among the Black Urban Poor." American Journal of Sociology 111: 1-57.
87. Sutherland, Edwin H. 1947. Principles of Criminology. 4 th ed. Philadelphia: Lippincott.
88. Thornberry, Terence P. 1998. " Membership in Youth Gangs and Involvement in Serious and Violent Offending " Pp. 147-66 in Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: Risk Factors and Successful Interventions, edited by R. Loeber and D. P. Farrington. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
89. Tittle, Charles R., David A. Ward, and Harold G. Grasmick. 2003. " Self-Control and Crime/Deviance: Cognitive vs. Behavioral Measures " Journal of Quantitative Criminology 19: 333-65.
90. Tittle, Charles R., David A. Ward, and Harold G. Grasmick. 2004. " Capacity for Self-Control and Individuals' Interest in Exercising Self-Control " Journal of Quantitative Criminology 20: 143-72.
91. Tourangeau, Roger and Hee-Choon Shin. 1999. " Grand Sample Weight." Available at http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/data/using/ guides/weights.pdf
92. Unnever, James D., Francis T. Cullen, and Robert Agnew. 2006. " Why is 'Bad' Parenting Criminogenic? Implications From Rival Theories." Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 4: 3-33.
93. Unnever, James D., Francis T. Cullen, and Travis C. Pratt. 2003. " Parental Management, ADHD, and Delinquent Involvement: Reassessing Gottfredson and Hirschi's General Theory " Justice Quarterly 20: 471-500.
94. Vitaro, F., C. Gagnon, and R.E. Tremblay. 1990. " Predicting Stable Peer Rejection From Kindergarten to Grade One." Journal of Clinical Child Psychology 19: 257-64.
95. Vitaro, F., R.E. Tremblay, M. Kerr, L. Pagani, and W.M. Bukowski. 1997. " Disruptiveness, Friends' Characteristics, and Delinquency in Early Adolescence: A Test of Two Competing Models of Development " Child Development 68: 676-89.
96. Warr, Mark. 1996. " Organization and Instigation in Delinquent Peers." Criminology 34: 11-37.
97. Warr, Mark. 2002. Companions in Crime: The Social Aspects of Criminal Conduct. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
98. Wasserman, Stanley and Katherine Faust. 1994. Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. New York: Cambridge University Press.
99. Weerman, Frank M. and W.H. Smeenk. 2005. " Peer Similarity in Delinquency for Different Types of Friends: A Comparison Using Two Measurement Methods." Criminology 43: 499-523.
100. Winfree, L. Thomas and Frances P. Bernat. 1998. " Social Learning, Self-Control, and Illicit Drug Use by Eighth Grade Students: A Tale of Two Cities " Journal of Drug Issues 28: 539-55.
101. Wright, Bradley R., Avshalom Caspi, and Terrie E. Moffitt. 2001. " The Effects of Social Ties on Crime Vary by Criminal Propensity: A Life-Course Model of Interdependence " Criminology 39: 321-52.
102. Wright, John P. and Kevin M. Beaver. 2005. " Do Parents Matter in Creating Self-Control in the Children? A Genetically Informed Test of Gottfredson and Hirschi's Theory of Low Self-Control." Criminology 43: 1169-1202.
103. Yanovitzky, Itzhak. 2005. " Sensation Seeking and Adolescent Drug Use: The Mediating Role of Association With Deviant Peers and Pro-Drug Discussions." Health Communication 17: 67-89.