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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.
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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.
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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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