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This research aims to understand how characteristics of delinquent peer networks influence individual offending trajectories over time.

April 25, 2026Criminology

The company you keep: The influence of popular delinquents and deviant brokers on offending trajectories

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This research aims to understand how characteristics of delinquent peer networks influence individual offending trajectories over time.
Utilized social network analysis to examine peer relationships and minimize same-source bias.
Employed group-based trajectory modeling to identify developmental pathways based on offending behavior.
Analyzed data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health) to explore peer influence.
Found four offending trajectories: non-offending, adolescent-limited, low-offending-desister, and high-offending-desister.
Increased popularity of delinquent friends correlated with a higher likelihood of being in adolescent-limited and high-offending-desister groups.
Higher betweenness centrality among delinquent peers linked to increased likelihood of low-offending-desister and high-offending-desister trajectories.

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Randomized trial investigates how delinquent peer popularity and centrality shape offending trajectories, suggesting public policy implications.

Daniel Trovato (2026) studied this question.

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Randomized trial investigates how delinquent peer popularity and centrality shape offending trajectories, suggesting public policy implications.