In this article we follow a lead from Don Cressey's article, 'Epidemiology and Individual Conduct,' and explore how differential social organization may be related to differential association. Using data from a three-year follow-up study of 130 serious juvenile offenders, we attempt to assess whether the effects of differential association variables (and others from competing theories) vary according to the social-class characteristics of the delinquents' social areas. While differential association variables were found to be the strongest predictors of delinquency, we were unable to demonstrate that their predictive efficacy varied significantly by the social class of the delinquents' social areas. (Author abstract)
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