In Volume 38, Issue 6, Cross and Fletcher (
2009) review the literature on adolescent peer crowds or reputation-based peer groups highlighting the different methods that have been used across studies to assess adolescent peer crowd affiliation. We think that the detailed comparison of peer crowd research methodologies that they provide was long overdue. In that regard, we found the review to be very informative. However, we disagree with some of Cross and Fletcher’s (
2009) key arguments that are directly or indirectly related to our own review on adolescent peer group identification (Sussman et al.
2007). …