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Maynard L. Erickson, Gary F. Jensen, "Delinquency Is Still Group Behavior!": Toward Revitalizing the Group Premise in the Sociology of Deviance, The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (1973-), Vol. 68, No. 2 (Jun., 1977), pp. 262-273
Erickson et al. (Wed,) studied this question.