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Dual Trajectories of Gang Affiliation and Delinquent Peer Association During
Adolescence: An Examination of Long-Term Offending Outcomes
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Dong B
; Krohn MD
J Youth Adolesc
2016[Apr]; 45
(4
): 746-62
PMID26748922
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Prior research has demonstrated that both adolescent gang affiliation and
perceived delinquent peer association are important predictors of individual
offending. A crucial question is whether and how youth gang affiliation
contributes to a spectrum of criminal acts above and beyond the influence of
associating with delinquent peers. Using 14 waves of data from the Rochester
Youth Developmental Study, an ongoing longitudinal panel study aimed at
understanding the causes and consequences of delinquency and drug use in an urban
sample of adolescents, the current study employs a relatively new modeling
technique-dual trajectory analysis-to illustrate the dynamic relationship between
these two measures among 666 male youth. The results suggest that the two
measures, while overlapping, may constitute distinct concepts that operate in
different ways. The most convincing evidence of gang effects, above and beyond
the influence of perceived peer delinquency, is for violent behavior and by
extension police arrest. Our findings contribute to developmental research and
provide information that informs future gang control efforts.
|*Peer Group
[MESH]
|Adolescent
[MESH]
|Adolescent Behavior/psychology
[MESH]
|Criminals/*statistics & numerical data
[MESH]
|Ethnicity
[MESH]
|Humans
[MESH]
|Juvenile Delinquency/*statistics & numerical data
[MESH]
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