"Adolescent delinquency" refers to the behavior of teenagers or young people who engage in illegal activities or behave in a way that is against the rules or norms of society.
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This research produced a surge of studies questioning the direct role parents had
on adolescent delinquency and the way in which parental monitoring was measured [6 — 8].
In general,
adolescent delinquency plays a larger role in linking the generations for G2 fathers, whereas parenting behaviors and financial stress play a larger role for G2 mothers.
For example: «Test Moffitt's theory of delinquency abstention by examining links between friendship networks and
adolescent delinquency involvement» or «Test the impacts of intensive police patrol at high crime spots on the legitimacy evaluations of residents.»
Parental monitoring
impacts adolescent delinquency both directly by limiting unsupervised activities and indirectly by limiting access to delinquent peers.
In addition, only for boys, friends» delinquency is associated with increases
in adolescent delinquency over time, and adolescents» delinquency is associated with increases in friends» delinquency over time.
Deviant peers may
influence adolescent delinquency through a number of mechanisms, and there is a lack of clarity within the literature on distinctions between co-offending and deviant peer norms as influential mechanisms.
As predicted, the training resulted in better parenting practices and fewer contacts with deviant peers which, in turn, were the mechanisms for reducing rates
of adolescent delinquency.
Using data from Waves 1 and 2 of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, I extend prior research on family transitions and adolescent well - being by examining the influence of parental marital and cohabitation transitions on
adolescent delinquency, depression, and school engagement.
And, since many of these girls have experienced abuse in childhood, is there a link between childhood abuse and
adolescent delinquency?
As hypothesized, the experiments demonstrated that improving parenting practices and reducing contacts with deviant peers served as mediating mechanisms for reducing rates of
adolescent delinquency.
Few genetically - informative studies have attempted to explicitly identify the shared environmental (i.e., those environmental influences that contribute to sibling similarity) factors now known to contribute to
adolescent delinquency.
These effects persist net of peer influence and
adolescent delinquency.
There is a long tradition of studying parent — child relationships and
adolescent delinquency.
Examine the long - term effects of two childhood universal prevention programs on
adolescent delinquency, substance use, and antisocial behavior.
Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors
an adolescent delinquency: A six - site, cross-national study
Individual in Context: The Role of Impulse Control on the Association between the Home, School, and Neighborhood Developmental Contexts and
Adolescent Delinquency.
Early delinquency has received considerably less scholarly attention than
adolescent delinquency.
Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and
adolescent delinquency: A six site, cross-sectional study
Over the past several decades, parents or legal guardians of adolescents have been extensively examined with regard to their contributions to
adolescent delinquency.
Connecting Parental Control and Autonomy Support to
Adolescent Delinquency.
Violence Exposure Subtypes Differentially Mediate the Relation between Callous - Unemotional Traits and
Adolescent Delinquency.
No bidirectional longitudinal associations were found between perceived friendship quality and
adolescent delinquency.
Less is known about the impact of co-offending on the mediated relationship among parental monitoring, peer delinquency, and
adolescent delinquency.
Social control theory focuses on the effects of parental behavior on
adolescent delinquency but fails to take into account the effect of adolescent delinquency on parental behaviors.
No interaction effects between friendship quality and friends» delinquency on
adolescent delinquency were found.
The present study examines both the unique and the combined role of best friends» delinquency and perceived friendship quality in the development of
adolescent delinquency.