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Peer Pressure, Peer Prevention - The Role of Friends in Crime and Conformity (Hardcover)
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Peer Pressure, Peer Prevention - The Role of Friends in Crime and Conformity (Hardcover)
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Criminological research has largely neglected the possibility that
positive peer influence is a potentially powerful source of social
control. Quantitative methods tease out cause, effect, and
spuriousness in the relationship between peer delinquency and
personal delinquency, but these methods do little or nothing to
reveal how and why peers might influence each other toward--or away
from--deviance. Costello and Hope take a first step toward
uncovering the mechanisms of peer influence, drawing on
quantitative and qualitative data collected from two convenience
samples of university students. Their quantitative analyses showed
that positive peer influence occurs most frequently among those who
associate with the most deviant peers and self-report the most
deviance, contrary to predictions drawn from social learning
theories. Their qualitative data revealed a variety of methods of
negative influence, including encouraging deviant behavior for
others' amusement, a motive for peer influence never before
reported in the literature.
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