Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior

Osgood, D. Wayne; Wilson, Janet K.; O’Malley, Patrick M.; Bachman, Jerald G.; Johnston, Lloyd D.

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“…Osgood, Wilson, O'Malley, Bachman, & Johnston, (1996) have argued that informal socializing with peers can increase the risk of offending. Accordingly, the presence of peers makes delinquent acts more easy, fun and rewarding, while the absence of authority figures reduces the opportunity for social control responses to delinquency (Hoeben, Meldrum, & Young, 2016).…”

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Adolescent Female Offenders’ Subjective Experiences of How Peers Influence Norm-Breaking Behavior

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Hau

Karlsson

2017

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Delinquent peers have a strong influence on adolescent delinquent behavior. However, few studies have investigated adolescents', and in particular young females', own perspectives of the role of peers on their delinquent behavior. The purpose of the present study was to explore how young female offenders described their delinquent behavior and more specifically the role they assign to peer relations in committing or avoiding delinquent acts. Nine female adolescents, sentenced to youth service, were interviewed, and the data was analyzed using the Consensual Qualitative Research (CQR) method. The results showed that committing crimes and taking drugs with peers were portrayed as a way for the female delinquents to socialize. Delinquent and pro-social activities with peers appear to serve similar developmental functions in the sense that it is described to fulfill the same developmental needs. The young offenders also described collectively created pressures and norms in the peer group as the main contributing factor to their norm-breaking behavior, where they described being both recipients and producers of influence in the group. Another important finding was that the female offenders showed an awareness of the importance of pro-social peers and the need to eliminate delinquent friends from their peer network in order to help them refrain from deviant behavior. Implications for prevention and intervention are discussed.

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Adolescent Female Offenders’ Subjective Experiences of How Peers Influence Norm-Breaking Behavior

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Hau

Karlsson

2017

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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“…The school success construct was created using two items that assessed completion of school assignments and a third that assessed average school grades (Cronbach alpha = .73). Others have found that a measure of time spent with peers in the absence of an authority figure was a good predictor of adolescent deviance (Osgood et al, 1996). Thus, a three-item construct assessed the time that adolescents spent out with friends (Cronbach alpha = .58) in the absence of parents or guardians.…”

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“…Most research studies on sport and deviance have employed objective measures of athletic participation, such as dichotomous indicators of varsity or intramural athlete status (Best, 1985;Bredemeier et al, 1985;Diekhoff et al, 1996;Haines et al, 1986; Josephson Institute of Ethics, 2002;Segrave and Hastad, 1984;Snyder, 1994;Stark et al, 1987), categorical measures of frequency of sports or exercise activity or number of sports played (Begg et al, 1996;Osgood et al, 1996;Paetsch and Bertrand, 1997), or some combination thereof (Buhrmann and Bratton, 1978;Priest et al, 1999;Rees et al, 1990;Segrave and Chu, 1978). Far less common are more subjective measures of athletic involvement, such as self-reported athletic or "jock" identity.…”

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“…For example, Priest et al 1999 found that although women's ethical value choice scores tended to be higher than men's, both female and male athletes' scores declined at comparable rates across their four-year college careers. Moreover, Osgood et al 1996 reported that gender differences in deviant behavior were largely reducible to gender differences in routine activity patterns, with young adult men spending more time overall in unstructured socializing with peers. In sum, existing research shows few if any gender distinctions in the sport/delinquency nexus.…”

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“…By structuring adolescents' time in adult-supervised settings during post-school hours when many teens are otherwise at loose ends, participation in organized sports limits such opportunities. Drawing on the premises of this theory, Osgood et al 1996 found that in a national sample of young adults aged 18-26, deviant behaviors such as crime, substance use, and dangerous driving were associated with unstructured peer interactions (e.g., spending an evening out with friends) but not with more structured activities like movies, dating, shopping, or sports. Langbein and Bess (2002) also concluded that interscholastic sports programs may help to mitigate the negative effects of school size on the rate of in-school delinquent disturbances.…”

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Athletic Involvement and Adolescent Delinquency

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Barnes

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J Youth Adolescence

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Athough conventional wisdom suggests that organized sport deters delinquency by building character, structuring adolescents' time, and providing incentives for socially approved behavior, the empirical evidence to date has been mixed. Based on a sample of approximately 600 Western New York adolescents, the present study examined how self-reported jock identity, school athlete status, and frequency of athletic activity differentially influenced a range of delinquent behaviors. Neither athlete status nor frequency of athletic activity predicted these behaviors; however, jock identity was associated with significantly more incidents of delinquency. This finding was robust across both gender and race. Follow-up analyses indicated that jock identity facilitated both minor and major delinquency, with major delinquency effects for white but not black adolescents. KeywordsAthletic involvement; Delinquency; Adolescence; Identity Lying, cheating, stealing, and other forms of deviant or delinquent behavior among high schoolaged U.S. adolescents have grown more common over the course of the past decade (Josephson Institute of Ethics, 2002). While most teens experiment with delinquent behavior at some point in the developmental trajectory from childhood to adulthood, choices made in adolescence may have both immediate and long-term consequences. Thus considerable attention has been devoted to identifying structured activities that provide both opportunities for more conventional success and resources for exploiting those opportunities (Feldman and Matjasko, 2005;Fraser-Thomas et al., 2005). For example, the salutary effects of organized sports on adolescent development have been widely documented (Ewing et al., 1996; Women's Sports Foundation, 2000). This institution has a great deal of promise as a venue for promoting positive development because sports have historically occupied an unusually prominent space in the American adolescent social landscape. In the 2004-2005 school year, 42% of U.S. public high school students (about 7 million students, including 4.1 million boys and 2.9 million girls) participated in organized high school sports ( NIH-PA Author ManuscriptNIH-PA Author Manuscript NIH-PA Author ManuscriptAthletic involvement-in terms of both objective participation in organized sports and a subjective affiliation with an athletic or "jock" identity-plays a critical role in the lives of many American teenagers. Yet, although conventional wisdom has long suggested that organized sport deters delinquency by building character, structuring adolescents' time, and providing incentives for socially approved behavior, the empirical evidence has been mixed (Feldman and Matjasko, 2005;Rees et al., 1990;Snyder, 1994). In fact, rather than reliably serving as a deterrent, sports may under some circumstances actually be itself a pathway to delinquency. A clearer understanding of the parameters of the multifaceted relationship between athletic involvement and delinquency is necessary in order to craft effective polic...

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Routine Activities and Individual Deviant Behavior

Cited by 1,189 publications

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Adolescent Female Offenders’ Subjective Experiences of How Peers Influence Norm-Breaking Behavior

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