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Delinquent Networks

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A model of the social network influences on juvenile delinquency is developed. The model shows the ability of agent-based modelling to model the social situatedness of normative and deviant behaviour and to test competing social theories.

…is evil just something you are or something you do?

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Notes

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    Although Drugtalk, discussed in Sect. 8.2.5, is a model of drug uptake, it is not a model of criminality as such because the illegality of drugs does not matter in the model.

  2. 2.

    Cf. Bearden et al. (1989) for empirical research on susceptibility to social influence.

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Elsenbroich, C., Gilbert, N. (2014). Delinquent Networks. In: Modelling Norms. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7052-2_11

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