Unstructured spare time as an international predictor of adolescent crime
By David Buil-Gil, Christopher Birkbeck, Dirk Enzmann, Karin Arbach, Marina Rezende Bazon, Muhamed Budimlić, Danielle T. Cooper, Marta Dąbrowska, Esther Fernández-Molina, Carolyn Gentle-Genitty, Aurea E. Grijalva-Eternod, Ewa M. Guzik-Makaruk, Sandrine Haymoz, Neal Hazel, Markus Kaakinen, Janne Kivivuori, Iza Kokoravec Povh, Camilla Løvschall Langeland, Patrik Manzoni, Anna Markina, Gorazd Meško, Sandra Kobajica Mišanović, Kim Moeller, Solbey Morillo-Puente, Aušra Pocienė, Zuzana Podaná, Juan Antonio Rodríguez, Margret Valdimarsdottir, Lars Westfelt, Ineke Haen Marshall••Plos.org
Abstract This study investigates whether unstructured spare time is a significant correlate of self-reported offending among adolescents in multiple countries. Drawing on survey data from 58,425 13-…