caa a22 4500 463170873 CHVBK 20180406164812.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10940-006-9022-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10940-006-9022-y Reconsidering Peer Influences on Delinquency: Do Less Proximate Contacts Matter? [Elektronische Daten] [Danielle Payne, Benjamin Cornwell] Much research on adolescent delinquency pivots on the notion of peer influence. The peer effect that is typically employed emphasizes the transmission of behaviors and attitudes between adolescents who are directly linked. In this paper, we argue that to rely solely on those direct social ties to capture peer influence oversimplifies the realities of adolescent society. We use data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health to show that indirect peer relations can exercise independent influences on adolescent delinquency. Adolescents actively draw on the examples of friends of friends, and even more distal peers, as they develop their repertoires of action and identity. We argue, however, that this behavior actually reflects adolescents' ongoing struggle to impress their closest friends and to preserve their social circle. Indeed, the extent to which adolescents are willing to model the behavior of indirect contacts seems to decline as that behavior becomes more dissimilar from that of their close friends. Our findings dovetail with an account of the adolescent as a rational actor who struggles for social acceptance in a complex peer environment which offers conflicting behavioral models. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Peer networks nationallicence Adolescent delinquency nationallicence Social proximity nationallicence Diffusion nationallicence Payne Danielle Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut Cornwell Benjamin Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA aut Journal of Quantitative Criminology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/2(2007-06-01), 127-149 0748-4518 23:2<127 2007 23 10940 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-006-9022-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10940-006-9022-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Payne Danielle Department of Sociology, Ohio State University, 300 Bricker Hall, 43210, Columbus, OH, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Cornwell Benjamin Department of Sociology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Quantitative Criminology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 23/2(2007-06-01), 127-149 0748-4518 23:2<127 2007 23 10940 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer