Both sensation seeking and affiliation with deviant peer groups are risk factors for delinquency in adolescence. In this study, we use a sample of adolescent twins (n = 549), 13 to 20 years old (M age = 15.8 years), in order to test the interactive effects of peer deviance and sensation seeking on delinquency in a genetically informative design. Consistent with a socialization effect, affiliati...

OBJECTIVES: To test Music Marker Theory (MMT) positing that early adolescents’ preferences for nonmainstream types of popular music indicate concurrent and later minor delinquency. METHODS: MMT was tested in a 4-year longitudinal study (n = 309). RESULTS: The results showed that early fans of different types of rock (eg, rock, heavy metal, gothic, punk), African American music (rhythm and blues...

Available online 11 March 2014 Purpose: The current study sought to determine whether sex moderated peer mediation of the externalizingdelinquency relationship as part of a larger test of the gendered pathways theory of crime. Methods: Data gathered from 4,144 (2,079 males and 2,065 females) members of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Child sample were subjected to simple correlational...

This research studies the sociological factors involving in boys  juvenile delinquency in Golestan (Northern province of Iran). Delinquent behavior treats the health of family and society and causes family disorder. It tries to understand the role of family and peer groups in delinquency. As we see in Sutherland theory of differential reinforcement association and Hirshi social control verif...

Eight separate samples of high school and university students (Total N = 410) in Britain and Canada were used to test predictions from Eysenck’s theory that delinquents should be high scorers on scales of extraversion, neuroticism, and psychoticism. Self-report paperand pencil-questionnaire measures of both personality and delinquency were administered under conditions that ensured anonymity. T...

General strain theory (GST) has evolved into a comprehensive theory of delinquency by incorporating factors that condition the relationship between strain and delinquency, as well as acknowledging the subjective nature of strain. Our study advances GST by examining the conditioning role of race and the manner in which race influences the subjective experience of strain. Examining a nationally r...

David J. Bordua, Ph.D., Ann Arbor, Michigan, is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Michigan. He received his doctorate from Harvard in 1957 and has published on theories of delinquency, authoritarianism, college aspirations of high school youth, and the use of formal selection instruments to detect delinquents at an early age. ABSTRACT: Group delinquency has...

We use data from the National Education Longitudinal Survey to examine the relationship between academic performance and delinquency. We estimate the effects of grades in tenth grade on delinquency in twelfth grade, and then introduce controls for social bonds and self-control (teacher-rated effort). Our evidence suggests that the feedback that adolescents receive in the form of grades does not...

Delinquency among students is increasingly common. This if left unchecked will become something that entrenched. study aims to determine the portrait of student delinquency, causal factors, and role sociology teacher in overcoming delinquency behavior. research a qualitative research. The location SMAN 3 Parepare City, South Sulawesi Province, Indonesia. informants were teachers, school princip...

Delinquency has been defined as youthful behavior that violates the law. 1 Juvenile court statistics indicate that 2.9 percent of American youths age 10-17 appear in Juvenile Court each year (excluding traffic offenses). Considering there are about 36 million youngsters in this age range in the United States,2 that means each year over a million youths are in serious trouble and appearing in co...