Purpose Peer delinquency and unstructured socializing have been identified as important
correlates of delinquency and substance use. This state-of-the-art review explicates …

Peer influence occupies an intriguing place in criminology. On the one hand, there is a long
line of theorizing and empirical work highlighting it as a key causal process for delinquency …

Criminology: Explaining Crime and Its Context, Ninth Edition, is a highly acclaimed textbook
offering a broad perspective on criminological theory. It provides students of criminology and …

Objectives: Informed by social control and differential coercion and social support theories,
we examine how multiple theoretically and methodologically distinct factors of family support …

Although peers are a major influence during adolescence, the relative importance of specific
mechanisms of peer influence on the development of problem behavior is not well …

Despite the high rates of trauma histories in offenders and the link between trauma and
subsequent criminal behavior, the mechanisms underlying the relationship between trauma …

Objectives This paper addresses a central problem in general strain theory (GST): the mixed
results regarding those factors said to condition the effect of strains on crime. We test …

Objectives Prison visitation serves as a critical setting by which prison life intersects with
civilian life. Yet, visitation research has produced conflicting findings. Using social support …

Walters provides a detailed description of how criminal thinking serves as a vital link
between criminality and crime. Criminality, the propensity to become involved in criminal …

We examined how parenting is directly and indirectly associated with adolescent
delinquency. We derived four possible mechanisms from major criminological theories and …