The Social Networking asks respondents about their general feelings about their friendship group, to list their five most important friends, and answer 10 items about each friend. The instrument was designed to assess the child's social network by asking such questions as (1) how many kids they usually spend time with?, (2) how often they feel there is not a group for them to spend time with?, and (3)whether they would like more or fewer friends? Respondents are then asked to list their five most important friends. Questions are asked about each friend concerning the favored activities with that friend, supportiveness, getting into trouble with the friend, age of the friend, ethnicity, gang connections and geographical proximity. The instrument provides quantitative indices of the size, deviance density and characteristics of boys' and girls' networks.