Abstract
With information supplied by a large (n = 3393) sample of high school students from Toronto, this paper tests the assumption that three forms of leisure activity—peer, risky, and self-improving leisure—have a relatively independent impact upon patterns of offending and victimization. Although we find significant support for this proposition, we also find that traditional criminal motivations are still strongly related to criminal incidents, particularly offending behavior. The positive association between leisure and victimization includes, counter intuitively, the sort of self-improving leisure that might have been expected to reduce the risk of victimization. We discuss our findings in terms of the relationship between traditional motivational explanations of crime and newer, more situational ones.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 199-221 |
| Number of pages | 23 |
| Journal | Youth and Society |
| Volume | 47 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Mar 28 2015 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, (SHHRC), Canada.
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© The Author(s) 2012.
ASJC Scopus Subject Areas
- Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
- Sociology and Political Science
- General Social Sciences
