{"id":177,"date":"2008-08-02T13:56:38","date_gmt":"2008-08-02T19:56:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/crawler\/?p=177"},"modified":"2008-08-02T13:56:38","modified_gmt":"2008-08-02T19:56:38","slug":"college-students-behaving-badly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/2008\/08\/02\/college-students-behaving-badly\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;college students behaving badly&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Creative Commons licensed photo by lintmachine on flickr.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/7900943@N06\/2325544299\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2386\/2325544299_3c4afac634_m.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Day 70 Alternate\/Outtake\" \/><\/a>Tara Parker-Hope of the <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/31\/college-students-behaving-badly\/\">New York Times<\/a> recently posted a piece on her blog discussing new sociological research that has identified a surprising new risk factor for bad behavior &#8212; college.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Parker-Hope\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2008\/07\/31\/college-students-behaving-badly\/\">writes<\/a>:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Men who attend college are more likely to commit property crimes during their college years than their non-college-attending peers&#8230;\u00a0Sociologists at Bowling Green State University in Ohio examined data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, which tracks education, crime levels, substance abuse and socializing among adolescents and young adults. Beginning with 9,246 students who were seventh through twelfth graders in the 1994-1995 academic year, the survey followed the students again in 1996 and 2001.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The researchers found that college-bound youth were less likely to be involved in criminal activity and substance use during adolescence than kids who weren\u2019t headed for college.\u00a0But college attendance appears to trigger some surprising changes. When male students enrolled in four-year universities, levels of drinking, property theft and unstructured socializing with friends increased and surpassed rates for their less-educated male peers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>But why?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The reason appears to be that kids who don\u2019t go to college simply have to grow up more quickly. College enrollment allows for a lifestyle that essentially extends the adolescent period, said Patrick M. Seffrin, the study\u2019s primary investigator and a graduate student and research assistant in the department of sociology and the Center for Family and Demographic Research at Bowling Green State University.<\/p>\n<p>College delays entry into adult roles like marriage, parenting and full-time work. Instead, college students have lots of unstructured social time. Other studies have linked unstructured socializing or \u201changing out\u201d with higher levels of delinquency and risk taking.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCollege attendance is commonly associated with self-improvement and upward mobility,\u201d Mr. Seffrin said. \u201cYet this research suggests that college may actually encourage, rather than deter, social deviance and risk-taking.&#8217;\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tara Parker-Hope of the New York Times recently posted a piece on her blog discussing new sociological research that has identified a surprising new risk factor for bad behavior &#8212; college.\u00a0 Parker-Hope\u00a0writes:\u00a0 \u00a0 Men who attend college are more likely to commit property crimes during their college years than their non-college-attending peers&#8230;\u00a0Sociologists at Bowling Green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39074],"tags":[39116,34,39114,117,100],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sightings","tag-crime","tag-education","tag-gender","tag-trends","tag-youth"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":178,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions\/178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/clippings\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}