Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA 15940, USA.
Addict Behav. 2011 Dec;36(12):1154-9. doi: 10.1016/j.addbeh.2011.07.012. Epub 2011 Jul 23.
Building upon the literature in developmental and life-course criminology, the present study assesses the possible association of age onset of delinquency with the trajectory of alcohol-impaired driving using data collected from the three waves of the Buffalo Longitudinal Survey of Young Men (BLSYM). It is argued that as a unique form of delinquency, alcohol-impaired driving among adolescents may be better understood in a broad context of adolescent delinquency involvement. The study adopts the general approach for the analysis of early onset of delinquency and criminal careers in developmental and life-course criminology and hypothesizes that early onset of delinquency is associated with a higher growth of alcohol-impaired driving over time among adolescents when age onsets of alcohol-impaired driving, drinking, and drug use are controlled. Our analysis with the HLM growth modeling method provides support for the hypothesis. Respondents who had an early start in delinquency were likely to have a faster growth of alcohol-impaired driving over the three waves of BLSYM, which implies that these respondents were likely to have a longer path of alcohol-impaired driving in their transition to adulthood. The implication of this finding is discussed.
基于发展和生活轨迹犯罪学的文献，本研究使用布法罗纵向青年研究（BLSYM）的三波数据评估了犯罪年龄与酒后驾驶轨迹之间可能存在的关联。有人认为，作为一种独特的青少年犯罪形式，青少年酒后驾车可以在青少年犯罪参与的广泛背景下更好地理解。该研究采用了发展和生活轨迹犯罪学中青少年早期犯罪和犯罪生涯分析的一般方法，并假设在控制酒后驾车、饮酒和吸毒年龄的情况下，青少年早期犯罪与酒后驾驶的增长速度呈正相关。我们使用 HLM 增长模型方法进行的分析为该假设提供了支持。在 BLSYM 的三波研究中，有早期犯罪记录的受访者的酒后驾驶增长速度可能更快，这意味着这些受访者在向成年期过渡时可能有更长的酒后驾驶道路。讨论了这一发现的意义。
