Leisure Worlds

Situations, Motivations and Young People’s Encounters With Offending and Victimization

Bibliographic Data

ID2328997
AuthorsJulian Tanner (Department of Social Science, University of Toronto at Scarborough, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada), Mark Asbridge (0000-0002-2168-6377, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Scot Wortley (Centre for Criminology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
Year2015
Volume47
Issue2
Pages199-221
Publication date2015-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueYouth & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0044-118X • E-ISSN: 1552-8499
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0044118x12456561
OpenAlexW2092473049
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited50

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

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