Purpose Peer delinquency and unstructured socializing have been identified as important
correlates of delinquency and substance use. This state-of-the-art review explicates …

Peer influence occupies an intriguing place in criminology. On the one hand, there is a long
line of theorizing and empirical work highlighting it as a key causal process for delinquency …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Research on immigration and crime has only recently started to consider potential
heterogeneity in longitudinal patterns of immigrant offending. Guided by segmented …

The distinct peer‐based perspectives of deviant normative influence and unstructured/
unsupervised socializing with friends contend that adolescents rely on different information …

The “causes of crime” research has up to this point focused on those events and conditions
that push or pressure individuals into crime (strains), that pull or attract individuals to crime …

Evidence continues to accumulate documenting a generational disparity in offending
whereby second-generation immigrants (the children of immigrants) evidence a precipitous …

Because criminal behavior has many causes, it is reasonable to assume that some of those
causal factors will interact. Interactions occur when the effect of one factor on an outcome …

Purpose A growing number of studies have examined the immigrant paradox with respect to
antisocial behavior and crime in the United States. However, there remains a need for a …

Research on crime over the life‐course has made considerable progress in the last several
decades. Despite this growth, significantly less attention has been devoted to longitudinal …