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Abstract
School moves during adolescence predict lower peer integration and higher exposure to delinquent peers. Yet mobility and peer problems have several common correlates, so differences in movers’ and non-movers’ social adjustment may be due to selection rather than causal effects of school moves. Drawing on survey and social network data from a sample of seventh and eighth graders, this study compared the structure and behavioral content of new students’ friendship networks with those of not only non-movers but also students about to move schools; the latter should resemble new students in both observed and unobserved ways. The results suggest that the association between school moves and friends’ delinquency is due to selection, but the association between school moves and peer integration may not be entirely due to selection.
Keywords peers, school transitions, networks, delinquency
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Author Biographies
Sonja E. Siennick is an associate professor at Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. She studies criminal offending and mental health problems in the contexts of the life course and kinship and friendship relations. Her current projects, funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute of Justice, examine substance use and peer problems among adolescents with depression, and the impacts of school-based probation, mental health, and substance abuse services for justice system–involved adolescents.
Alex O. Widdowson is a doctoral student at Florida State University’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His research interests include the development of crime over the life course, the consequences of criminal behavior and criminal justice sanctioning, prisoner reentry, and residential mobility and crime.
Daniel T. Ragan is an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of New Mexico. The primary theme of his research is the development of drug and alcohol use in adolescence, and he is currently pursing research projects related to social networks, adolescent delinquency and drug use, and crime over the life course.
