ISSN 1671-3710
CN 11-4766/R
主办:中国科学院心理研究所
出版:科学出版社

›› 2012, Vol. 20 ›› Issue (4): 552-560.

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The Effects of Deviant Peer Association on Juvenile Delinquency

ZANG Gang-Shun   

  1. (Department of Student Affairs; College of Humanities and Law, Yanshan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China)
  • Received:2011-09-26 Revised:1900-01-01 Online:2012-04-15 Published:2012-04-15
  • Contact: ZANG Gang-Shun

Abstract: An understanding of the relationship between peers and delinquency is at the heart of delinquency research. Large amounts of empirical research support the idea claimed by learning theorists that deviant peer association promotes juvenile delinquency, and this prompt appears in juvenile offenders of different ages, different genders, different developmental trajectories and different delinquency types, even in many juvenile offenders group intervention programs of various kinds. To shed new light on this topic, future studies should choose juveniles from different cultural backgrounds as research objects, and adopt more longitudinal studies, comparative studies and experimental studies to further explore the group differences and the internal mechanisms of this influence, and develop effective intervention measures for it.

Key words: juvenile delinquency, deviant peer association, socialization, group intervention program