Does dropping out of school mean dropping into delinquency

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School Disengagement as a Predictor of Dropout, Delinquency, and Problem Substance Use during Adolescence and Early Adulthood (2011, unknown): “More recently, Sweeten et al. (2009) also reported that dropout status itself was not related to later involvement in delinquency but rather factors leading up to dropping out were predictive.”
The Importance of School Attendance: Findings From the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development on the Life-Course Effects of Truancy (2017, background): “For example, Sweeten et al. (2009) claim that “the empirical literature is consistent in demonstrating that those who eventually drop out of school are different in fundamental ways from nondropouts long before they leave school” (p. 50, emphasis in original).”
The Ties That Bind (2014, background): “…(Gartner, Baker, & Pampel, 1990; Lauritsen & White, 2001) whereas the school disruption finding might reflect a transitional shift to an even riskier, nonconventional lifestyle (Hindelang, Gottfredson, & Garofalo, 1978; Taylor, Freng, Esbensen, & Peterson, 2008; see also Sweeten et al., 2009).”