ERIC Number: EJ1321492
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Publication Date: 2021-Nov
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Immigrant Background and Crime among Young People: An Examination of the Importance of Delinquent Friends Based on National Self-Report Data
Svensson, Robert; Shannon, David
Youth & Society, v53 n8 p1335-1355 Nov 2021
In this article we examine whether different agents of socialization--family, school, and peers--are differentially associated with offending among different immigrant groups. Our expectation is to find that the association between delinquent friends and offending is stronger for first- and second-generation immigrants than for youths of native Swedish background. We use data from four nationally representative self-report studies of 21,504 adolescents with an average age of 15 years in Sweden. The results show that both first- and second-generation immigrants report committing more offenses than natives. The association is rather weak and the two predictors account for only a marginal amount of the variance in total offending. The results also show that the association between delinquent friends and offending is stronger for both first- and second-generation immigrants than for natives.
Descriptors: Immigrants, Delinquency, Crime, Friendship, Peer Influence, Adolescents, Predictor Variables, Generational Differences, Foreign Countries, Antisocial Behavior, Parent Child Relationship, Parenting Styles, Student School Relationship, Social Influences
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Sweden
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