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Most interventions for at-risk youth are group based. Yet, research indicates that young people often learn to become deviant by interacting with deviant peers. In this important volume, leading intervention and prevention experts from psychology, education, criminology, and related fields analyze how, and to what extent, programs that aggregate deviant youth actually promote problem behavior. A wealth of evidence is reviewed on deviant peer influences in such settings as therapy groups, alternative schools, boot camps, group homes, and juvenile justice facilities. Specific suggestions are offered for improving existing services, and promising alternative approaches are explored.

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• Part I Introduction
• 1 The Problem of Deviant Peer Influences in Intervention Programs(p. 3)
• 2 Deviant Peer Contagion in Interventions and Programs: An Ecological Framework for Understanding Influence Mechanisms(p. 14)
• 3 Deviant Peer Effects: Perspectives of an Epidemiologist(p. 44)
• 4 Assigning Youths to Minimize Total Harm(p. 67)
• 5 Is Deviant Peer Influence a Problem, and What Can Be Done?: Qualitative Perspectives from Four Focus Groups(p. 90)
• Part II Reviews of Peer Effects
• 6 Deviant Peer Group Effects in Youth Mental Health Interventions(p. 97)
• 7 Deviant Peer Effects in Education(p. 122)
• 8 Peer Effects in Juvenile Justice(p. 141)
• 9 The Effects of Community-Based Group Treatment for Delinquency: A Meta-Analytic Search for Cross-Study Generalizations(p. 162)
• 10 Peer Effects in Neighborhoods and Housing(p. 185)
• 11 Iatrogenic Outcomes of the Child Welfare System: Vulnerable Adolescents, Peer Influences, and Instability in Foster Care Arrangements(p. 203)
• 12 Peer Effects in Community Programs(p. 215)
• 13 Peer Effects in Naturally Occurring Groups: The Case of Street Gangs(p. 234)
• Part III Promising Solutions and Recommendations
• 14 Research-Based Prevention Programs and Practices for Delivery in Schools That Decrease the Risk of Deviant Peer Influence(p. 253)
• 15 Promising Solutions in Juvenile Justice(p. 278)
• 16 Prevention Approaches to Improve Child and Adolescent Behavior and Reduce Deviant Peer Influence(p. 296)
• 17 Promising Solutions in Housing and the Community(p. 312)
• 18 Creating a Legal and Organizational Context for Reducing Peer Influence(p. 328)
• 19 A Functional Contextualist Framework for Affecting Peer Influence Practices(p. 342)
• 20 Findings and Recommendations: A Blueprint to Minimize Deviant Peer Influence in Youth Interventions and Programs(p. 366)
• References(p. 395)
• Index(p. 447)

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Kenneth A. Dodge, PhD, is the Pritzker Professor of Public Policy and Psychology and Neuroscience at Duke University. He is Founding and Emeritus Director of the Duke Center for Child and Family Policy. A clinical and developmental psychologist, Dr. Dodge studies early childhood development, prevention of violent behavior in the family, and public policy to improve population outcomes for communities. He is the developer of Family Connects, a population approach to improve children's outcomes in the first year of life. The author of more than 500 highly cited scientific articles, which have been cited more than 100,000 times, Dr. Dodge has been elected into the National Academy of Medicine and is the 2019-2021 President of the Society for Research in Child Development.



Thomas J. Dishion, PhD, is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Director of Research at the Child and Family Center at the University of Oregon. His interests include understanding the development of antisocial behavior and substance abuse in youth and designing effective interventions and prevention programs. He focuses on family-centered interventions and the negative effects of aggregating high-risk youth into intervention groups. He has published over 90 scientific reports on these topics, a book for parents on family management, and two books for professionals.



Jennifer E. Lansford, PhD, is a Research Scientist at the Duke University Center for Child and Family Policy. Her research focuses on the development of aggression and other behavior problems in youth, with an emphasis on how family and peer contexts contribute to or protect against these outcomes. She examines how experiences with parents (e.g., physical abuse, divorce) and peers (e.g., rejection, friendships) affect the development of children's behavior problems, how influence operates in adolescent peer groups, and how cultural contexts moderate links between parents' discipline strategies and children's behavior problems.