delinquent peer

collocation in English

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delinquent
adjective
uk
/dɪˈlɪŋ.kwənt/
us
/dɪˈlɪŋ.kwənt/
illegal or not acceptable, or behaving in a way that is illegal or ...
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peer
noun[C]
uk
/pɪər/
us
/pɪr/
a person who is the same age or has the same social position or the same abilities as other people in ...
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(Definition ofdelinquentandpeerfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Perhaps the strongest candidate for the shared environment influence is the twins partaking in antisocial behavior together, either alone or within adelinquentpeergroup.
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We explore how the rate of violent behaviors followsdelinquentpeergroup trajectories and investigate a differential facilitation effect of delinquent peers on violence across multiple developmental pathways.
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Participants who left the study or had missing data did not significantly differ ondelinquentpeerinvolvement at age 11 compared to those who had complete data.
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Some empirical findings suggest a facilitation effect of delinquent peers on antisocial behavior.
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The moderate risk status of this group is exacerbated by the formation of affiliations with delinquent peers who may act to encourage, reward, and sustain tendencies to antisocial behaviors.
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For example, children who are at high genetic risk for delinquency should not be aggregated with delinquent peers, as such exposure constitutes a potentiating (high risk) environment.
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This issue becomes even more prominent as findings suggest that social behaviors, such as affiliation with delinquent peers and delinquency, vary as a function of age.
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It suggests young people are motivated to commit crimes by delinquent peers, and learn criminal skills from them.
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He proposed that delinquent peers would be found to have no direct effect on delinquency when social bonds inhibiting delinquency were taken onto account.
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