J. Mitchell Miller

TL;DR: In this article, a conceptual framework that links individual trait and situational antecedents of violent victimization is presented, where individual risk factors include low self-control and weak social ties with the family and school, while situational risk factors are having delinquent peers and spending time in unstructured and unsupervised socializing activities with peers.

TL;DR: In this article, the structural dimensions of peer networks have been investigated to understand how the characteristics of networks may influence individual delinquent behavior in a peer-to-peer network, and the authors extended the network analysis to include the structural characteristics of the network itself.

TL;DR: The authors found that although community variables exert some effect on schoolyard victimization risk, risk levels are associated with the presence of likely offenders at school as well as individual students who have delinquent characteristics and criminal associates.

TL;DR: This paper investigated whether school security techniques reduce or exacerbate fear of crime among students, net of community and school disorder and student characteristics, and found that many types of security correspond with a significantly greater likelihood that a student will be worried about crime while none reduce feelings of worry.

TL;DR: In this article, the additive and interactive effects of self-control were modeled to predict binge drinking and negative alcohol-related behaviors in a sample of college students from a university in the southern United States.