Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Towards Freedom, Empowerment, and Agency: An Introduction to Queering Criminology in Theory and Praxis: Reimagining Justice in the Criminal Legal System and Beyond
- 1 Gender-and Sexuality-Based Violence among LGBTQ People: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory
- 2 Queer Pathways
- 3 Queer Criminology and the Destabilization of Child Sexual Abuse
- 4 Queer(y)ing the Experiences of LGBTQ Workers in Criminal Processing Systems
- 5 ‘PREA Is a Joke’: A Case Study of How Trans PREA Standards Are(n’t) Enforced
- 6 Queerly Navigating the System: Trans* Experiences Under State Surveillance
- 7 Sex-Gender Defining Laws, Birth Certificates, and Identity
- 8 Effects of Intimate Partner Violence in the LGBTQ Community: A Systematic Review
- 9 Health Covariates of Intimate Partner Violence in a National Transgender Sample
- 10 Serving Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex Youth in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall
- 11 Liberating Black Youth across the Gender Spectrum Through the Deconstruction of the White Femininity/Black Masculinity Duality
- 12 ‘I Thought They Were Supposed to Be on My Side’: What Jane Doe’s Experience Teaches Us about Institutional Harm against Trans Youth
- 13 The Role of Adolescent Friendship Networks in Queer Youth’s Delinquency
- 14 ‘At the Very Least’: Politics and Praxis of Bail Fund Organizers and the Potential for Queer Liberation
- 15 A Conspiracy
- 16 LGBTQ+ Homelessness: Resource Obtainment and Issues with Shelters
- 17 The Color of Queer Theory in Social Work and Criminology Practice: A World without Empathy
- 18 Camouflaged: Tackling the Invisibility of LGBTQ+ Veterans When Accessing Care
- 19 Barriers to Reporting, Barriers to Services: Challenges for Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Victimization
- Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Do Justice? Current and Future Directions in Queer Criminological Research and Practice
- Index
13 - The Role of Adolescent Friendship Networks in Queer Youth’s Delinquency
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 15 September 2022
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Towards Freedom, Empowerment, and Agency: An Introduction to Queering Criminology in Theory and Praxis: Reimagining Justice in the Criminal Legal System and Beyond
- 1 Gender-and Sexuality-Based Violence among LGBTQ People: An Empirical Test of Norm-Centered Stigma Theory
- 2 Queer Pathways
- 3 Queer Criminology and the Destabilization of Child Sexual Abuse
- 4 Queer(y)ing the Experiences of LGBTQ Workers in Criminal Processing Systems
- 5 ‘PREA Is a Joke’: A Case Study of How Trans PREA Standards Are(n’t) Enforced
- 6 Queerly Navigating the System: Trans* Experiences Under State Surveillance
- 7 Sex-Gender Defining Laws, Birth Certificates, and Identity
- 8 Effects of Intimate Partner Violence in the LGBTQ Community: A Systematic Review
- 9 Health Covariates of Intimate Partner Violence in a National Transgender Sample
- 10 Serving Transgender, Gender Nonconforming, and Intersex Youth in Alameda County’s Juvenile Hall
- 11 Liberating Black Youth across the Gender Spectrum Through the Deconstruction of the White Femininity/Black Masculinity Duality
- 12 ‘I Thought They Were Supposed to Be on My Side’: What Jane Doe’s Experience Teaches Us about Institutional Harm against Trans Youth
- 13 The Role of Adolescent Friendship Networks in Queer Youth’s Delinquency
- 14 ‘At the Very Least’: Politics and Praxis of Bail Fund Organizers and the Potential for Queer Liberation
- 15 A Conspiracy
- 16 LGBTQ+ Homelessness: Resource Obtainment and Issues with Shelters
- 17 The Color of Queer Theory in Social Work and Criminology Practice: A World without Empathy
- 18 Camouflaged: Tackling the Invisibility of LGBTQ+ Veterans When Accessing Care
- 19 Barriers to Reporting, Barriers to Services: Challenges for Transgender Survivors of Intimate Partner Violence and Sexual Victimization
- Conclusion: What Does It Mean to Do Justice? Current and Future Directions in Queer Criminological Research and Practice
- Index
Summary
Introduction
Involvement in crime or delinquency spikes during the adolescent years (Gottfredson& Hirschi, 1990), yet relatively few studies have explored the role that sexual orientation plays in involvement in delinquency (Himmelstein & Bruckner, 2011; Conover-Williams, 2014; Koeppel, 2015; Beaver et al., 2016). Prior work that has addressed this research question has had various limitations due to the difficulty of collecting data on sexual orientation, low sample sizes, lack of longitudinal data, and also the increased likelihood of misreporting by adolescent respondents (Savin-Williams & Joyner, 2014). These issues have led to inconsistencies in our understanding of queer youth's offending patterns. In this chapter, queer youth are defined as individuals who self-identified as gay, lesbian, bisexual, or who were uncertain about their sexual orientation during young adulthood.
Only recently have studies begun to assess how sexual orientation relates to involvement in delinquency. Focusing on criminal justice and school sanctions, Himmelstein and Bruckner (2011) found that queer youth who reported same-sex attraction or who self-identified as lesbian, gay, or bisexual were more likely to receive some type of official sanction (for example, school expulsion, juvenile arrest, be stopped by the police). Similarly, Conover-Williams (2014) found that queer youth had a higher prevalence and frequency of delinquent involvement and were more likely to commit property and sex-related crime compared with their straight peers. Other recent studies (Koeppel, 2015; Beaver et al., 2016) find similar patterns in queer youth's involvement in delinquency. Additionally, these studies suggest that gender and sexual orientation interact to create different patterns of delinquent involvement, with queer girls more likely to engage in delinquent behaviors compared with queer boys. In this chapter, I explore whether characteristics related to peer friendship networks during adolescence help explain differences in delinquent involvement on the part of queer youth. I also discuss how we can apply findings from this research to help queer youth become better integrated socially within schools during adolescence.
Queering theoretical peer explanations
Criminological theories have largely ignored the role of queer criminology in their explanations of why individuals become involved with crime, yet socializing with others is key to both being exposed to and learning different types of attitudes and behaviors, including delinquency.
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- Queering Criminology in Theory and PraxisReimagining Justice in the Criminal Legal System and Beyond, pp. 189 - 205Publisher: Bristol University PressPrint publication year: 2022