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  • Criminology
  • Sociology
  • Psychology

Background:

  • Limited understanding of offending specialization and versatility within friendships.
  • Exploration of self-control and social learning theories in explaining criminal behavior among peers.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate how self-control and social learning theories explain offending versatility among friends.
  • To analyze the relationship between peer offending, personal self-control, and individual offending versatility.

Main Methods:

  • Multilevel, dyadic, mixed-effects models used with a large sample of individuals within friendship pairs.
  • Regression analysis of offending versatility on measures of peer versatility and self-control.

Main Results:

  • Higher perceptual and self-reported peer versatility correlate with increased offending versatility.
  • Lower attitudinal and behavioral self-control in individuals are linked to higher offending versatility.
  • Peer self-control showed no significant relationship with offending versatility.

Conclusions:

  • Both social learning and self-control theories offer insights into offending versatility among friends.
  • Contradictory findings regarding peer self-control challenge existing self-control theory propositions.
  • The concept of opportunity may reconcile inconsistencies within self-control theory regarding peer influence.