For researchers and practitioners interested in social relationships, the question remains as
to how large social networks typically are, and how their size and composition change …

Homophily can put minority groups at a disadvantage by restricting their ability to establish
links with a majority group or to access novel information. Here, we show how this …

Reciprocity and transitivity are the two most important structural mechanisms underlying
friendship network evolution. While on their own they are understood in great detail, the …

Social Network Analysis: Methods and Examples by Song Yang, Franziska B. Keller, and Lu
Zheng prepares social science students to conduct their own social network analysis (SNA) …

In this article, longitudinal social network data are analyzed to get a better understanding of
the interplay between delinquent peers and delinquent behavior. These data contain …

Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been identified as a key risk factor for a variety
of negative health, psychiatric, and behavioral outcomes across the life course. Although …

Gangs and group‐level processes were once central phenomena for criminological theory
and research. By the mid‐1970s, however, gang research primarily was displaced by …

Objective: The purposes of this study are twofold. First, we explore how the accumulation,
timing, and duration of ACEs influences youth delinquency. Second, because few studies to …

Applications of social network analysis in the study of crime fall mainly into three topic areas:
the influence of the personal network on ego's delinquency or crime, the influence of …

Peer similarity in delinquency has been studied extensively. But basic questions remain
about measuring peer delinquency and how important the nature of relationships with …