📢 New in Social Forces Tight-knit schools are supposed to curb misbehavior. Instead they give high-status boys more leeway, and over time their popularity predicts more offending, not less. By Nicolo P Pinchak ➡️ doi.org/10.1093/sf/soag062

New in @sfjournal.bsky.social, just in time for summer reading 📚☀️ Cohesive schools are widely thought to curb youth offending, but the evidence is quite mixed. I find that popular boys in such schools may experience more leeway to offend—what I call a "code of cohesion." doi.org/10.1093/sf/s...