Friendship Networks and Delinquency in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood, Session 2: Peers and Punishment

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

In this symposium, broken into two thematic panels, we highlight the role of friendship networks in the development of delinquency. The first session, “Peers and Persistence,” focused on change and stability in peer networks and delinquency. The second session, “Peers and Punishment,” focuses on the impacts of punishment on friendship network structure and composition. Here, we introduce the second session, in which we build on theory in criminology and social psychology to examine the role of punishment in shaping peer networks from adolescence into young adulthood. The first paper, by Wade Jacobsen, Guyu Sun, Cassie McMillan, Erin Tinney, and Nayan Ramirez, examines whether friendship networks are smaller and more delinquent among young adults who were arrested in adolescence and the extent to which lower participation in conventional institutions explains this association. The second paper, by Guyu Sun, tests whether the impacts of adolescent arrest on friendship networks vary across different structural and cultural contexts, where arrests are more or less perceptible and discrediting. The third paper, by Daniel Trovato, assesses whether having a friend who is suspended from school is associated with a greater likelihood of suspension, net of behavior. Presentations will be followed by comments from discussant Beth Cauffman.

Sub Unit

• Area IV. Correlates of Crime / 33. Social Ties & Social Networks

Individual Presentations

• Stuck in the Same Old Crowd? The Role of Institutional Exclusion in the Persistence of Interpersonal Exclusion after Adolescent Arrest - Wade C. Jacobsen, University of Maryland; Guyu Sun, University of Maryland, College Park; Cassie McMillan, Northeastern University; Erin Tinney, University of Maryland, College Park; Nayan G. Ramirez, California State University, Northridge

• Contextualizing Stigma: How School Cultural and Structural Contexts Affect Interpersonal Exclusion Following Criminal Justice Contact - Guyu Sun, University of Maryland, College Park

• Suspended by Association: Vicarious Suspension as a Catalyst for Adolescent School Discipline - Daniel Trovato, Northeastern University

Chair

• Wade C. Jacobsen, University of Maryland

Discussant

• Elizabeth E. Cauffman, University of California, Irvine