Developmental trajectories of nonsocial reinforcement and offending in adolescence and young adulthood: An exploratory study of an understudied part of social learning theory

George E. Higgins, Wesley G. Jennings, Catherine D. Marcum, Melissa L. Ricketts and Margaret Mahoney

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2011, vol. 39, issue 1, 60-66

Abstract: Within social learning theory, nonsocial reinforcement has been hypothesized to have a link with offending. The purpose of the present study was to address two questions: (1) Does nonsocial reinforcement change or remain stable over time? And (2) does nonsocial reinforcement have a reciprocal link with offending, as Wood et al. (1997) would expect?

Date: 2011
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2010.10.005

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