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Scientists at University of Utrecht describe research in life sciences
January 17th, 2009
"Criminologists tend to assume that friends are fairly similar in their delinquent behaviours. However, the process leading to this similarity is not fully understood," researchers in Netherlands report. "It is not clear Whether similarity in delinquent behaviour among friends is the result of a selection-or of an influence process. In this article, we investigate this issue using longitudinal data on students' friendship networks and their delinquent behaviour in 16 Dutch high schools (11 = 859). For the analysis, We made use of SIENA, a technique for the simultaneous analysis of the dynamics of both networks and behaviour," wrote C. Baerveldt and colleagues,...
Source: Law & Health Weekly (2009-01-17)
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