
Utskrift från Malmö universitet - mau.se
Utskrift från Malmö universitet - mau.se
Publication | Article, peer reviewed scientific |
Title | Is a risky lifestyle always "risky"? The interaction between individual propensity and lifestyle risk in adolescent offending: A test in two urban samples |
Author | Svensson, Robert ; Pauwels, Lieven |
Date | 2010 |
English abstract | |
This study examines the effects on adolescent offending of lifestyle risk and the individual propensity to offend. It is assumed that lifestyle risk will have a more important effect on offending for those individuals with high levels of individual propensity, whereas for individuals with low levels of individual propensity it is assumed that a risky lifestyle will not, or will only marginally, influence their involvement in offending. The data are drawn from two different samples of young adolescents in Antwerp, Belgium (N = 2,486), and Halmstad, Sweden (N = 1,003). The data provide strong support for the hypothesis that the effect of lifestyle risk is dependent on the strength or weakness of individual propensity, indicating that lifestyle risk has a stronger effect on delinquency for individuals with a high propensity to offend. The similarity of the results across two independent samples suggests the findings are stable. | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1177/0011128708324290 (link to publisher's fulltext.) |
Publisher | Sage publications |
Host/Issue | Crime & Delinquency;4 |
Volume | 56 |
Pages | 19 |
Page | 608-626 |
Language | eng (iso) |
Subject | Humanities/Social Sciences Research Subject Categories::SOCIAL SCIENCES |
Handle | http://hdl.handle.net/2043/6634 Permalink to this page |
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