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Principal Investigators:
Kenneth A. Dodge, Ph.D., Duke University
Thomas Dishion, Ph.D., University of Oregon
Joan McCord, Ph.D., Temple University
The Duke University Executive Sessions Panel on Deviant Peer Contagion, which assembled six times over a 3-year period to complete a comprehensive analysis of the problem of deviant peer influence during interventions in education, mental health, juvenile justice, and community programs.
The panel included nationally recognized scholars (including members of the National Academy of Engineering and the Institute of Medicine) from economics, psychology, political science, sociology, education, engineering, philosophy, statistics, and criminology; policymakers (including leaders of federal agencies); practitioners (including the presiding Juvenile Court Judge in Dade County, Florida); journalists; and businessmen. The panel reviewed the scientific literature; conducted site visits to intervention programs; administered focus groups with youth, interventionists, and parents; initiated several new empirical studies; completed a meta-analysis; and deliberated over the evidence.
The authors are grateful for funding for these efforts from the Duke University Provost’s
Office and the W. T. Grant Foundation.
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RECENT PRESENTATIONS
Presentation by Kenneth Dodge and Joel Rosch from the Jan. 10, 2006,
"Building on Success: Providing Today's Youth With Opportunities for a Better Tomorrow" meeting in Washington, DC. (pdf)
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RECENT PUBLICATIONS
Deviant Peer Influences in Programs for Youth: Problems and Solutions
Edited by Kenneth A. Dodge, Thomas J. Dishion, and Jennifer E. Lansford
Most interventions for at-risk youth are group based. Yet, emerging 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. Concrete recommendations are offered for improving existing services, and promising alternative approaches are explored.
Purchase this volume here.
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SRCD Social Policy Report, Deviant Peer Influences in Intervention and Public Policy for Youth by Kenneth A. Dodge, Thomas J. Dishion, and Jennifer E. Lansford (January 2006)
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Children's Peer Relations : From Development to Intervention edited by Janis B. Kupersmidt, Ph.D. and Kenneth A. Dodge, Ph.D.
Children's Peer Relations: From Development to Intervention is a compilation of virtually everything that is known about the association between children's peer relations and the development of peer rejection, aggression, and antisocial behavior. Looking beyond the peer rejection process, this volume also covers dyadic relationships, cliques, and associations with difference types of peers as well as the effects of family influences. It is comprehensive in covering the last three decades of research that connect the dynamical features of the social and emotional processes associated with peer problems in childhood and mediators of peer experiences.
The chapters, written by some of the best-known scientist-practitioners, will interest a wide range of academic scholars, researchers, and graduate students in the field of developmental psychology and child clinical psychology as well as those working in education, social work, public health, substance abuse, or criminology/sociology.
Purchase online from APA Books
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OVERVIEW
The project has two components:
1. A comprehensive review of the scientific and practice literatures on the negative effects of aggregating deviant peers in education, mental health and juvenile justice; and
2. Secondary data analyses to evaluate the impact of deviant peer aggregation on academic and behavioral outcomes.
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Members:
Jim Anthony, Ph.D., Johns Hopkins University
Anthony Biglan, Ph.D., Oregon Research Institute
Al Blumstein, Ph.D., Carnegie Mellon
Fox Butterfield, New York Times
Phil Cook, Ph.D., Duke University
Thomas Dishion, Ph.D., University of Oregon
Kenneth Dodge, Ph.D., Duke University
Greg Duncan, Ph.D., Northwestern University
Ted Gest, University of Pennsylvania
Kathi Grasso, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
Peter Greenwood, Ph.D., Greenwood & Associates
Malcolm Klein, Ph.D., University of Southern California
Jennifer Lansford, Ph.D., Duke University
Honorable Cindy Lederman, Juvenile Court, Dade County, FL
Jerry Lee, President, B-101 FM Philadelphia
Jens Ludwig, Ph.D., Georgetown University
D. Wayne Osgood, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Winifred Reed, M.A., National Institute of Justice
Joel Rosch, Ph.D., Duke University
Emilie Phillips Smith, Ph.D., Pennsylvania State University
Hill Walker, Ph.D., University of Oregon
Melvin Wilson, Ph.D., University of Virginia
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