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The Multidimensional Roles of Peers on Reoffending

Confer, Leanne M
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu161701193990896

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2021, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Sociology.
Research in criminology has often treated peers as primarily criminogenic in their influence on offending behaviors. While scholars have posited different explanations for the consistent association between peer delinquency and offending from a variety of epistemological traditions, little work has considered the importance of peer relationships within this process. Based on this gap in the literature, and a call for research to expand on the way peers are conceptualized and measured, the current study focuses on the independent and interdependent effects of peer relationship quality and peer delinquency in explaining offending behaviors. The Pathways to Desistance data are used to address this issue and encompass a longitudinal sample of about 1,300 adjudicated adolescents across 11 waves of data. Drawing from social learning and social control theories, I use a life-course framework to consider the importance of peer relationships following adjudication. Findings from a series of mixed-effects models demonstrate that peer relationship quality is significantly predictive of increased aggressive offending but is not a significantly associated with income-based offending or polysubstance use. Further, while peer relationship quality does mitigate the positive relationship between delinquent peers and income-based offending, there is no significant interaction effect for polysubstance use nor aggressive offending. Overall, findings in the current research highlight that changes in peer relationships following adjudication may function as a key turning point when it comes to self-reported offending behaviors, particularly when examined in tandem with peer delinquency.
Thomas Mowen (Advisor)
John Boman, IV (Committee Member)
Danielle Kuhl (Committee Member)
48 p.
Criminology; Sociology
Peers; Desistance; Differential Association; Social Learning; Social Control; Relationship Quality

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  • Confer, L. M. (2021). The Multidimensional Roles of Peers on Reoffending [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu161701193990896

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Confer, Leanne. The Multidimensional Roles of Peers on Reoffending. 2021. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu161701193990896.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Confer, Leanne. "The Multidimensional Roles of Peers on Reoffending." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu161701193990896

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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