@article{ref1,
title="Arrests of Self and Friends as Indicators of Delinquency Involvement",
journal="Journal of research in crime and delinquency",
year="1968",
author="Hardt, R. H. and Peterson, S. J.",
volume="5",
number="1",
pages="44-51",
abstract="It has been proposed that the identification of boys with delinquent commitments might be indexed more appropriately by the official delinquency records of a boy's friends than by the boy's own records. This hypothesis was examined within a population of seven hundred junior-high-school boys by collating information from police records with responses from a question naire survey which contained sociometric items, a self-report delinquency scale, and an attitudinal index of delinquency commitment. The findings indicate that a boy without a police record but with friends who are officially delinquent is likely to have a high delinquency commitment. However, a boy with a police record who has friends without records is also likely to have a high delinqueny commitmcnt. It is suggested that the combined use of the arrest reccords of the juvenile and of his friends promises to provide a much better means of identifying boys with differential commitments than the use of either measure alone.<p />",
language="",
issn="0022-4278",
doi="10.1177/002242786800500104",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/002242786800500104"
}