Although young people can be in contact with the police as victims and witness they often are the offenders. A study on youth's antisocial behaviour (Eagan, M. Neary, J. Keenan, P. J. Bond, L. 2013)may be linked to their environment. The study uses focus groups, sampling adults living in disadvantaged urban neighbourhoods (Glasgow, UK). The researcher key findings were that some evidence of negative attitudes are often in form of young people being generalised and stereotyped.(Eagan, M. Neary, J. Keenan, P. J. Bond, L. 2013). During the focus group discussions, the kinds of comments made about young people ranged from "strongly pejorative to sympathetic and empathetic" (2013:5). On the whole, the discussions tended to emphasise the variety
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Mestre, M. V. McGinley, M. Tur-Porcar, A. Samper, P. Opal, D. 2014). Data were drawn from the Flourishing Families Project, which consisted of 500 participants ( 51.6% female; 33% were from single-parent families) who participated at six time points, each approximately 1 year apart (Carlo, G. Mestre, M. V. McGinley, M. Tur-Porcar, A. Samper, P. Opal, D. 2014). Results suggest that "parental warmth (at Time 2) was associated with self-regulation (Time 3), which was then associated with prosocial and deviant peer association (Time 4). Peer association was in turn related to prosocial behaviours and substance use (Time 7) (2014:4)". Further research that intended to understand the role that both parents and peers have on Young people suggest that "while peer influence during mid-adolescence is significantly linked with behavioural outcomes in late adolescence, early adolescent experiences of parental warmth also have indirect effects on the outcomes" ( 2014:5) This has risen recent concerns in the UK about youth anti-social behaviour and gang culture have led to an increase in intervention strategies focused on the policing of groups of young people. In the article "Somewhere between distrust and dependence: young people, the police and antisocial behaviour management within marginalised communities
Mestre, M. V. McGinley, M. Tur-Porcar, A. Samper, P. Opal, D. 2014). Data were drawn from the Flourishing Families Project, which consisted of 500 participants ( 51.6% female; 33% were from single-parent families) who participated at six time points, each approximately 1 year apart (Carlo, G. Mestre, M. V. McGinley, M. Tur-Porcar, A. Samper, P. Opal, D. 2014). Results suggest that "parental warmth (at Time 2) was associated with self-regulation (Time 3), which was then associated with prosocial and deviant peer association (Time 4). Peer association was in turn related to prosocial behaviours and substance use (Time 7) (2014:4)". Further research that intended to understand the role that both parents and peers have on Young people suggest that "while peer influence during mid-adolescence is significantly linked with behavioural outcomes in late adolescence, early adolescent experiences of parental warmth also have indirect effects on the outcomes" ( 2014:5) This has risen recent concerns in the UK about youth anti-social behaviour and gang culture have led to an increase in intervention strategies focused on the policing of groups of young people. In the article "Somewhere between distrust and dependence: young people, the police and antisocial behaviour management within marginalised communities