Citation

Dembo R, Williams L, Wothke W, Schmeidler J, Getreu A, Berry E, Wish ED. J. Res. Crime Delinq. 1992; 29(2): 200-216.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1992, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/0022427892029002006

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Drawing on previous research completed on young adults in the general population, the authors report the results of a test of a structural equation model separating general and specific deviance components of deviant behavior on data collected in a longitudinal study of a cohort of juvenile detainees. Consistent with earlier work, the authors' findings indicate that each deviant behavior is, in part, a manifestation of a general tendency toward deviance and, in part, a unique phenomenon among the high-risk youths they studied. In addition, analysis suggests that the youths' self-report measures of deviance reflect a tendency toward self-disclosure, which accounts for part of the covariance among these measures.