@article{ref1,
title="Immigrant background and crime among young people: an examination of the importance of delinquent friends based on national self-report data",
journal="Youth and society",
year="2021",
author="Svensson, Robert and Shannon, David",
volume="53",
number="8",
pages="1335-1355",
abstract="In this article we examine whether different agents of socialization--family, school, and peers--are differentially associated with offending among different immigrant groups. Our expectation is to find that the association between delinquent friends and offending is stronger for first- and second-generation immigrants than for youths of native Swedish background. We use data from four nationally representative self-report studies of 21,504 adolescents with an average age of 15 years in Sweden. The results show that both first- and second-generation immigrants report committing more offenses than natives. The association is rather weak and the two predictors account for only a marginal amount of the variance in total offending. The results also show that the association between delinquent friends and offending is stronger for both first- and second-generation immigrants than for natives.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0044-118X",
doi="10.1177/0044118X20942248",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0044118X20942248"
}