This article examines criminal behavior from a rational choice perspective, the set of behavioral principles underlying our legal institution. The authors use subjective utility approach and specify experiential learning models formation risk perceptions theft violence. They estimate using panel data on high youth Denver Youth Survey. Using random effects Tobit perceived negative binomial counts acts, find support for model. Perceived follows Bayesian updating model in which current are...

The belief that women and men are held to different standards of sexual conduct is pervasive in contemporary American society. According the double standard, boys rewarded praised for heterosexual contacts, whereas girls derogated stigmatized similar behaviors. Although widely by general public, research findings on standard remain equivocal, with qualitative studies early attitudinal surveys generally finding evidence more recent experimental vignette designs often failing find results. In...

This article examines the extent to which participation in high school interscholastic sports contributes male violence. Deriving competing hypotheses from social control, learning, and masculinity theories, I use data National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health test if (1) type sport (2) peer athletic participation, contribute risks serious fighting. Contrary control expectations, analyses suggest that involvement fails inhibit Moreover, there is a strong relationship between contact...

Evidence from several qualitative studies has suggested that the transition to motherhood strong inhibitory effects on delinquency and drug use trajectories of poor women. Quantitative studies, however, typically have failed find significant parenthood or effects. We argue latter research not examined in disadvantaged settings applied appropriate statistical method. Focusing within‐individual change, we test hypothesis using data a 10‐year longitudinal study more than 500 women living Denver...

The onset and escalation of alcohol consumption romantic relationships are hallmarks adolescence. Yet only recently have these domains jointly been the focus sociological inquiry. We extend this literature by connecting use, dating, peers to understand diffusion drinking behavior in school-based friendship networks. Drawing on Granovetter’s classic concept weak ties, we argue that adolescent partners likely be network bridges, or liaisons, daters new peer contexts that, turn, promote changes...

Gangs and group-level processes were once central phenomena for criminological theory research. By the mid-1970's, however, gang research was primarily displaced by studies of individual behavior using randomized self-report surveys, a shift that also removed groups from theoretical foreground. In this project, we return to group level test competing claims about delinquent structure. We use network-based clustering methods identify 897 friendship in two ninth grade cohorts 27 Pennsylvania...

Research of inmate social order is a once-vibrant area that receded just as American incarceration rates climbed and the country's carceral contexts dramatically changed. This study reengages society with an abductive mixed methods investigation informal status within contemporary men's prison unit. The authors collect narrative network data from 133 male inmates housed in unit Pennsylvania medium-security prison. Analyses narratives suggest "old heads" provide collective goods form...

Inmate social organization was once a central area within criminology that stalled just as incarceration rates dramatically climbed. In this review, we return to seminal works on topic before summarizing the changes mass wrought in correctional contexts and potential impacts of these for inmate society. We then review few recent studies document contemporary life call increased researcher-practitioner partnerships embed criminologists carceral settings. suggest network approaches are...

Too Cool for School? Violence, Peer Status and High School Dropout Get access Jeremy Staff, Staff Pennsylvania State University Direct correspondence to Department of Sociology, University, 211 Oswald Tower, Park, PA 16802-6207. E-mail: jus25@psu.edu. Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Derek A. Kreager Social Forces, Volume 87, Issue 1, September 2008, Pages 445–471, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.0.0068 Published: 01 2008

Journal Article Urban Revitalization and Seattle Crime, 1982–2000 Get access Derek A. Kreager, Kreager Direct correspondence to: Department of Sociology, Pennsylvania State University, 211 Oswald Tower, University Park, PA 16802-6207. E-mail: dkreager@psu.edu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Christopher J. Lyons, Lyons Zachary R. Hays Social Problems, Volume 58, Issue 4, 1 November 2011, Pages 615–639, https://doi.org/10.1525/sp.2011.58.4.615...

The mid-twentieth century witnessed a surge of American prison ethnographies focused on inmate society and the social structures that guide life. Ironically, this literature virtually froze in 1980s just as country entered period unprecedented expansion, has only recently begun to thaw. In manuscript, we develop rationale for returning forefront criminological inquiry, suggest network science provides an ideal framework achieving end. so doing, show perspective extends by allowing...

This article explores gendered patterns of online dating and their implications for heterosexual union formation. The authors hypothesized that traditional gender norms combine with preferences more socially desirable partners to benefit men disadvantage women in the earliest stages dating. They tested this 6 months data from a mid-sized southwestern city (N = 8,259 6,274 women). found both tend send messages most alters market, regardless own social desirability. also who initiate contacts...

Drawing on social exchange theories, the authors hypothesized that educated women are more likely than uneducated to leave violent marriages and suggested this pattern offsets negative education–divorce association commonly found in United States. They tested these hypotheses using 2 waves of young adult data 914 married from National Longitudinal Study Adolescent Health. The evidence suggests relationship between women's education divorce is weaker when involve abuse they do not. observed a...

Journal Article Strangers in the Halls: Isolation and Delinquency School Networks Get access Derek A. Kreager University of Washington Direct all correspondence to Kreager, Department Sociology, Washington, Box 354330, Seattle, 98195. E-mail: dkreager@u.washington.edu. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Social Forces, Volume 83, Issue 1, September 2004, Pages 351–390, https://doi.org/10.1353/sof.2004.0117 Published: 01 2004

This article examines the relationship between adolescent violence and peer acceptance in school. Deriving hypotheses from subcultural theories of crime violence, it tests whether violence–status varies across sociodemographic characteristics educational contexts students. Analyses school network data collected National Longitudinal Study Adolescent Health suggest that generally holds a negative to friendship nominations for both males females. However, males, this effect by standing...

As innovations in medical technology extend average longevity, grandparents become increasingly present during the lives of their grandchildren. We propose a theory that seeks to explain differential investment The relies on fundamental assumption uncertainty reduction why post-industrial societies might find it rational invest at least one advance numerous illustrative hypotheses about end life uncertainty, as well proportional and investments grandchildren, discuss relevance existing...

Peer support services, including certified recovery specialists (CRSs), have been of increasing interest to treatment scholars. However, if and how such services assist justice-involved individuals with substance use disorders during community reentry is less understood. This pilot study provided CRS both reentrants their family members the transition from close custody confinement supervision, a perilous period in which risks relapse rearrest peak. Post-intervention interviews nine fifteen...

Although a growing body of research documents lasting health consequences incarceration, little is known about how confinement affects inmates' while incarcerated. In this study, we examine the role peer social integration and prisoners' self-reported behaviors (smoking, exercise, perception health, depression) in prison unit. We also consider whether inmates with similar characteristics cluster within Drawing on sample 132 "good behavior" unit, leverage network data to ask: prison, it...

Women with substance use disorders (SUDs) often experience adversity related to incarceration and reentry that can impact their outcomes. This study aims examine the adverse effects of on outcomes among women a history opioid disorder (OUD).