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An Examination of the Effects of Peer Relationship on Juvenile Delinquency

出版	Central Connecticut State University, 2013
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=YY3FuQEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋The subject of juvenile delinquency is of great importance to the field of criminal justice and related social science fields, with its root cause or causes being hotly contested by scholars and researchers alike. The following study examines secondary data from a sample of 1,014 cases of alleged or substantiated maltreatment of both male and female at-risk youths aged 16 and 18 as a consequence of DCF involvement to determine if any relationship can be found to exist between delinquent behavior as it relates to factors of peer influence. It was hypothesized that associations between delinquency and delinquent peer influence would be found to exist. Analysis of the data revealed some of the following key findings: (1) Minor and major delinquency on the part of friends was slightly to moderately linked to delinquency in terms of level of severity (i.e., minor, moderate, serious), (2) Having low-level delinquent friends can be a very small predictor towards involvement into serious delinquency, and having both low-level and high-level delinquent friends was found to be a predictor of overall delinquency, (3) Having non-delinquent friends who engage in positive social activities, although non-predictive of delinquency itself, has a slight inhibition on delinquency, and (4) Having friends who use drugs is weakly, if not at all related to delinquency and is non-predictive. Lastly, conclusions and policy implications from the findings are discussed in chapter five as well as recommendations favoring the use of multi-leveled or tiered integrational modalities for addressing delinquent behavior within the context of peer relationships are given at the end.