Male and Female Broken Home Rates by Types of Delinquency

Weeks, H. Ashley

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“…This type of presentation is suggested by the literature. A number of investigators (Nye, 1958;Weeks, 1940;Toby, 1957;Gibbons and Griswold, 1957;Wilkinson, 1974) have found the effects of family relationships were stronger for girls than for boys, and our data indicate important differences in the patterns of relationships between boys and girls. Relationships broken down by sex of parent (respondent) will not be presented in detail because in most instances this variable had no effect on the results.…”

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The Family and Juvenile Delinquency

Gove

Crutchfield

1982

The Sociological Quarterly

158

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This paper examines the effect of various “family variables” on the etiology of juvenile delinquency. These self‐report data are unique in that they are from reports by parents of their child's behavior, the nature of the child's life at home, and parental perceptions of their relationship with the child. How the family and delinquency literature fit into control theory's conceptualization of the importance of a child's attachment to the family as a determinant of delinquency is evaluated. Variables measuring (1) family structure, (2) poor parental characteristics, (3) household characteristics, and (4) parent‐child relationships are examined. The attachment variable was found to be the strongest predictor of delinquency and helps to “interpret” the effects of other variables that are significantly related to delinquency. The variables that predict male delinquency were found to be different from those that predict female delinquency. Characteristics of the parents' marriage play an important role for boys, while misbehavior of girls is more strongly predicted by variables measuring parent‐child interaction and parental control.

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The Family and Juvenile Delinquency

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Crutchfield

1982

The Sociological Quarterly

158

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“…22, 27 A number of studies have reported an association between broken homes and delinquency,21 • 22 . 3o and there is evidence that this association is stronger for female than for male delinquents.8• 1s, 25,26 The data suggest that it is not the actual break-up of the home that promotes delinquency, but the family discord and disharmony that precede the break. 22 The mechanisms by which marital or family disharmony result in increased rates of delinquency are not well understood.…”

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Broken homes, parental psychiatric illness, and female delinquency.

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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

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Fifty-nine families with delinquent daughters were compared with 59 families, matched on socioeconomic class, with daughters of the same age who were not delinquent. The frequency of broken homes was found to be the strongest distinguishing factor between probands and controls. Parental disabilities appeared to play a part in the incidence of delinquency among girls, particularly when the disabilities result in a broken home.

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“…This is because underadjustment bias is often coupled with a selection of samples where obvious and large nonequivalences exist on a wide range of variables. "Known delinquents" are singled out and compared with the nonincarcerated, nonapprehended general adolescent population so that a priori differences are maximizedl (Glueck and Glueck, 1934;Newman and Denman, 1970-197 1;Jaffe, 1969;Monahan, 1957;Weeks, 1940;Shaw and McKay, 1932;Lumpkin, 1932). For example, Chilton and Markle (1972: 94) conclude "that the living arrangements of children ten to seventeen years old in the U.S. population distribute quite differently from those of children in Florida charged with offenses which would be crimes if committed by adults.,' Given the original disparities between these groups, large statistical adjustments are clearly necessary to isolate the effect of broken homes.…”

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BROKEN HOMES AND MIDDLE CLASS DELINQUENCY A Reassessment

1978

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7This paper uses data from middle class suburban high school students to examine the relationship between broken homes and selj-reported delinquency. Only small effects of family structure on delinquent acts are discovered. Methodological and theoretical problems which are common to research on broken homes are outlined and the contradictions between our results and those of other researchers are then analyzed from the alternative explanations of specification and spuriousness.

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Male and Female Broken Home Rates by Types of Delinquency

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The Family and Juvenile Delinquency

The Family and Juvenile Delinquency

Broken homes, parental psychiatric illness, and female delinquency.

BROKEN HOMES AND MIDDLE CLASS DELINQUENCY A Reassessment

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