Friends are an important source of social support for adolescents, but there is little research
on how adolescent offenders' friendships provide support due to the emphasis on risk …

Research on the friendships of adolescents who offend has overwhelmingly focused on
delinquency, despite developmental evidence that friendships are a large source of support …

To understand how youth desist from crime after their first arrest, it is necessary to
investigate their primary support system: their parents. As such, this study examined the …

This chapter examines friendships between incarcerated young men. It is based on a three-
year longitudinal study conducted with forty young men who were admitted for the first time …

Hirschi's social bonding theory suggests that weak or broken social bonds increase an
individual's likelihood of involvement in delinquent or criminal behavior. The social bond …

It has been argued that early family adversity and relationships with parents and peers are
important variables in the etiology of juvenile delinquency. Although several studies point to …

As deviant behavior is increasing during emerging adulthood and friends are a driving force
behind deviance, the goal of this study is to explore the relationships between friend …

In the early 1980s, political and media attention to drug use and violence pushed the nation
into a “tough-on-crime” era in which an increasingly large share of the population, including …

This current study addresses potential impediments to attachment that may differentiate
between incarcerated juveniles who have committed sexual crimes and incarcerated …

While associations with deviant peers are well understood to impact individual development,
less is understood about the relationship between friendship quality and delinquency. Two …