Increasingly, research points to the negative effects of incarcerating youth offenders,
particularly in adult facilities. Literature published since 2000 suggests that incarceration …

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 …

This book provides a sociological perspective on crime and criminal justice by treating social
structure and social inequality as central themes in the study of crime—and major factors in …

In this article, longitudinal social network data are analyzed to get a better understanding of
the interplay between delinquent peers and delinquent behavior. These data contain …

The interplay of sanctions, perceptions, and crime has special significance in criminology
and is central to a long tradition of perceptual deterrence research as well as to more recent …

Applications of social network analysis in the study of crime fall mainly into three topic areas:
the influence of the personal network on ego's delinquency or crime, the influence of …

Perceptions of legal actor legitimacy have important implications for criminal behaviour.
While the link between perceptions of legitimacy and legal compliance has been well …

Social scientists have long recognized that individual experiences in particular settings
shape behavior, and as a result, many service sectors regularly evaluate client perceptions …