Immigrant Background and Crime among Young People: An Examination of the Importance of Delinquent Friends Based on National Self-Report Data

Autor/inn/en	Svensson, Robert; Shannon, David
Titel	Immigrant Background and Crime among Young People: An Examination of the Importance of Delinquent Friends Based on National Self-Report Data
Quelle	In: Youth & Society, 53 (2021) 8, S.1335-1355 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Svensson, Robert)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0044-118X
DOI	10.1177/0044118X20942248
Schlagwörter	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; Sweden + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; Kriminalität; Crimes; Delict; Delicts; Delikt; Freundschaft; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Prädiktor; Ausland; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Schüler-Lehrer-Beziehung; Sozialer Einfluss; Schweden
Abstract	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. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01