Juvenile Delinquency in the Black Community

Gray‐Ray, Phyllis; Ray, Melvin C.

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“…Laub and Sampson (1988) found that parental styles of discipline (ranging from strictness to laxity) were one of the strongest predictors of delinquency. Conversely, Gray-Ray and Ray (1990) found that among Black youth, perceived parental rejection was significantly related to delinquent behavior while parental supervision and control was not. This finding is inconsistent with previous research studies and consequently adds to the controversy surrounding the role of parenting in determining delinquency.…”

Section: Parental Stylesmentioning

confidence: 94%

“…Family management problems refers to practices such as poor monitoring and supervision, lack of clear expectations for youth's behavior, and severe and inconsistent disciplinary techniques (Gray-Ray & Ray, 1990;Hawkins et al, 2000). Research has shown that these behaviors are strongly predictive of future delinquency and substance abuse (Capaldi & Patterson, 1996;Hawkins, Arthur & Catalano, 1995, Wells & Rankin, 1988.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Interventions that focus on building competencies in families of youths with serious and violent delinquent involvement such as Multisystemic Therapy (Henggeler et al, 1998) have shown positive short-term results (Borduin et al, 1995). Despite of what is currently known about the role of parental involvement in delinquent behavior, there is a paucity of research using exclusively African American youths and families (Gray-Ray & Ray, 1990;Jang & Krohn, 1995). Lack of ethnic minority samples has resulted in a gap in the knowledge base regarding parental involvement.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Parental lack of or failure to provide monitoring provides the opportunity for an adolescent to engage in delinquent behavior (Gray-Ray & Ray, 1990;Patterson & Dishion 1985). Laub and Sampson (1988) found that parental styles of discipline (ranging from strictness to laxity) were one of the strongest predictors of delinquency.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Parental monitoring would be an appropriate indicator of the supervision dimension of parenting styles, as lack of parental supervision and monitoring is a potential risk factor in the development of delinquent behavior (Gray-Ray & Ray, 1990;Jensen, 1997, Smith & Stern, 1997, Williams et al, 1997). An appropriate measure may include items such as "How often do your parents ask you where you are going?"…”

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The Relationship Between Parenting and Delinquency: A Meta-analysis

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This meta-analysis of 161 published and unpublished manuscripts was conducted to determine whether the association between parenting and delinquency exists and what the magnitude of this linkage is. The strongest links were found for parental monitoring, psychological control, and negative aspects of support such as rejection and hostility, accounting for up to 11% of the variance in delinquency. Several effect sizes were moderated by parent and child gender, child age, informant on parenting, and delinquency type, indicating that some parenting behaviors are more important for particular contexts or subsamples.Although both dimensions of warmth and support seem to be important, surprisingly very few studies focused on parenting styles. Furthermore, fewer than 20% of the studies focused on parenting behavior of fathers, despite the fact that the effect of poor support by fathers was larger than poor maternal support, particularly for sons. Implications for theory and parenting are discussed.Keywords Child-rearing . Delinquency . Meta-analysis . Moderators . Development Parents of young people are often blamed for the delinquent behavior of their children. In some courts parents are even penalized for the antisocial conduct of their children (e.g., Bessant and Hil 1998;Drakeford 1996;Dundes 1994). Although lay as well as scholarly theories assume that a link between parenting and delinquency exists, clear conclusions concerning the magnitude of this link are difficult to draw. An important reason for this difficulty is the heterogeneity of the studies and their findings in this field of research. Studies vary on the kinds of delinquency and parenting dimensions that are investigated, on how these constructs are measured, and on the populations from which the samples are drawn. In a series of meta-analyses we summarize and integrate previous findings on the link between parenting and delinquency. The first goal is to analyze which parenting dimensions are related to delinquency and the second is to identify moderators that affect the parenting-delinquency association.Research on family antecedents and correlates of delinquency is of direct importance to both theory and practice. Interest in the family was apparent in early theories on social disorganization (Gove and Crutchfield 1982;Van Voorhis et al. 1988), and in the social bond model of Hirschi (1969). Other theories such as those of

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Juvenile Delinquency in the Black Community

Cited by 30 publications

References 23 publications

Risk and resilience factors associated with delinquent behavior among African American adolescent males

Risk and resilience factors associated with delinquent behavior among African American adolescent males

Psychosocial Development and Black Male Masculinity: Implications for Counseling Economically Disadvantaged African American Male Adolescents

The Relationship Between Parenting and Delinquency: A Meta-analysis

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