TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2010//
TI  - Is a Risky Lifestyle Always "Risky"? The Interaction Between Individual Propensity and Lifestyle Risk in Adolescent Offending: A Test in Two Urban Samples
JO  - Crime and delinquency
A1  - Svensson, R.
A1  - Pauwels, L.
SP  - 608
EP  - 626
VL  - 56
IS  - 4
N2  - This study examines the effects on adolescent offending of lifestyle risk and the individual propensity to offend. It is assumed that lifestyle risk will have a more important effect on offending for those individuals with high levels of individual propensity, whereas for individuals with low levels of individual propensity it is assumed that a risky lifestyle will not, or will only marginally, influence their involvement in offending. The data are drawn from two different samples of young adolescents in Antwerp, Belgium (N = 2,486), and Halmstad, Sweden (N = 1,003). The data provide strong support for the hypothesis that the effect of lifestyle risk is dependent on the strength or weakness of individual propensity, indicating that lifestyle risk has a stronger effect on delinquency for individuals with a high propensity to offend. The similarity of the results across two independent samples suggests the findings are stable.<p />
LA  - 
SN  - 0011-1287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128708324290
ID  - ref1
ER  -