Citation

O SH, Lee YJ, Wilcox P, Cullen FT. Crime Delinq. 2023; 69(10): 1996-2021.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2023, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/00111287221102061

PMID

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Abstract

This study examines deviant identity in relation to youth offending by combining items tapping both self-appraisal and reflected appraisal. In particular, using survey data from 3,446 Korean youth across five waves of the Korea Youth Panel Survey (KYPS), findings from group-based trajectory modeling (GBTM) present four distinct offending groups--a high-rate chronic group, stable non-offending group, adolescence-limited group, and declining group. Then, findings from the multinomial logit model reveal that deviant identity is a robust predictor of offending for subgroups of adolescents involved in offending at any level in comparison to stable non-offenders. Accordingly, this study supports the idea that deviant identity should be considered as a prominent predictor of a variety of types of youth offending.

Language: en