PEER SIMILARITY IN DELINQUENCY FOR DIFFERENT TYPES OF FRIENDS: A COMPARISON USING TWO MEASUREMENT METHODS*

By Frank M. Weerman, W. Smeenk. 2005

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Subfields: Social Psychology, Sociology and Political Science

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How Do They ‘End Up Together’? A Social Network Analysis of Self-Control, Homophily, and Adolescent Relationships (2011, unknown): “Although there is a growing consensus that the effect of peer delinquency in past studies was overestimated (e.g., Haynie 2001, 2002; Haynie and Osgood 2005; Weerman and Smeenk 2005 ), subsequent research, using more accurate measures of peer delinquency, continues to find that the introduction of ”
Self-Control and Deviant Peer Network Structure (2009, methodology): “For more commentary on the overestimation of the peer effect under this methodology, see Kandel (1996) and Weerman and Smeenk (2005).”
“Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop”: Self-Control, Risky Lifestyles, and Repeat Victimization (2012, background): “Research has demonstrated that respondents’ perceptions of peer delinquency may be biased to a certain extent by hearsay or by the likelihood of individuals to project their own tendencies onto their friends (Haynie and Osgood 2005; Weerman and Smeenk 2005; Young et al. 2011).”
When Is Spending Time With Peers Related to Delinquency? The Importance of Where, What, and With Whom (2015, background): “Young people may misperceive their peers’ involvement in delinquency or they may even tend to impute their own behavior to that of their peers (Haynie & Osgood, 2005; Weerman & Smeenk, 2005).”
Reconsidering the Effect of Self-Control and Delinquent Peers (2009, methodology): “…that is one half to one third in size compared with the use of indirect measures of delinquent peers (Iannotti and Bush 1992; Kandel 1996; Weerman and Smeenk 2005), providing support for the argument that the effect of peer delinquency has been overestimated in research that has relied…”
Peers and delinquency among girls and boys: Are sex differences in delinquency explained by peer factors? (2012, unknown): “Earlier studies (Kandel, 1996; Weerman and Smeenk, 2005) have suggested that respondents often misperceive the delinquency levels of their peers and overestimate similarity to their own behaviour.”