Dual Trajectories of Gang Affiliation and Delinquent Peer Association During Adolescence: An Examination of Long-Term Offending Outcomes

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• 作者：Beidi Dong ; Marvin D. Krohn
• 关键词：Gang membership ; Perceived peer delinquency ; Dual trajectories ; Life course ; Adolescence
• 刊名：Journal of Youth and Adolescence
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：April 2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：45
• 期：4
• 页码：746-762
• 全文大小：502 KB
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• 作者单位：Beidi Dong (1)
  Marvin D. Krohn (2)
  
  1. Penn Injury Science Center, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Blockley Hall Room 936, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
  2. Department of Sociology and Criminology and Law, University of Florida, Turlington Hall Room 3340, Gainesville, FL, 32611, USA
  
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Child and School Psychology
  Clinical Psychology
  Health Psychology
  Law and Psychology
  History of Psychology
  Psychology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-6601

文摘

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.