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ABSTRACT
Although criminologists have long recognized the role that peers play in crime, the specific mechanisms responsible for this relationship have been difficult to isolate. Drawing from the perspectives of differential coercion and social support and differential association, we examine how one type of coercion among friends – conflict – moderates the peer deviance/crime relationship. Using dyadic data, greater levels of conflict are related to higher levels of deviance and conflict weakens the peer deviance–crime relationship. Overall, conflict plays a dual role by relating to higher amounts of deviance while jointly reducing the influence of peer deviance on crime.
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1 Using this version of Stata, multiple imputations are currently unsupported in the mixed effects negative binomial package. However, models were imputed using this package with a “force” option for multiple imputation (20 draws, Markov-Chain Monte Carlo). The forced imputation did not produce estimates that were in line with results from listwise models. To provide the most valid results, we report models using listwise deletion in this paper.
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John H. Boman
JOHN BOMAN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Bowling Green State University in Bowling Green, Ohio. His research is primarily quantitative and is focused on the association between social relationships, and especially friendships, and crime. Some of his recent research appears in Criminology, Deviant Behavior, and Crime & Delinquency.
Thomas J. Mowen
THOMAS J. MOWEN is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Bowling Green State University. His research examines the effect of punishment on youth and family outcomes and the role of family within the process of reentry. His recent research has appeared in Criminology, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, and Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency.