“…In addition, it is postulated that African American inner-city youth that exhibit moral disengagement may be more likely to seek out, identify, and associate with peers that are also morally disengaged, which could further reinforce certain maladaptive cognitions that drive negative behaviors (Caravita, Sijtsema, Rambaran, & Gini, 2013). Additionally, it is possible that differing levels of psychological resiliency can work to activate and deactivate different mechanisms of moral disengagement in response to certain traumatic situations and related events (Thorkildsen, 2009). …”