The Influence of Earlier Parental Violence on Juvenile Delinquency: The Role of Social Bonds, Self-Control, Delinquent Peer Association and Moral Values as Mediators

Manzoni, Patrik; Schwarzenegger, Christian

doi:10.1007/s10610-018-9392-3

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“…We hypothesized that child maltreatment would affect the psychosocial processes related to crime propensity and the socioecological processes related to exposure to criminogenic settings. In line with previous studies, the results indicate that physical child maltreatment is associated with general juvenile delinquency (Farrington et al, 2017;Park et al, 2012;Smith and Thornberry, 1995;Wilson et al, 2009) and violent delinquency (Braga et al, 2017;Fitton et al, 2018;Maas et al, 2008;Kokkalera et al, 2018;Manzoni and Schwarzenegger, 2019). In the current study, physical maltreatment also relates to property offenses.…”

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The association between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency in the context of Situational Action Theory: Crime propensity and criminogenic exposure as mediators in a sample of European youth?

Doelman¹,

Luijk

Marshall

et al. 2021

European Journal of Criminology

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The current study investigates the association between physical child maltreatment and juvenile delinquent behavior in the context of the Situational Action Theory (SAT) (Wikström, 2006, 2017, 2020). Self-control, morality and exposure to criminogenic settings are proposed as possible mechanisms explaining the association between physical child maltreatment and adolescent offending. The hypotheses are tested in a subsample of the third wave of the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3), a large international non-clinical study on delinquency and victimization among adolescents. The final sample consists of N = 24,956 adolescents aged 12–16 years from nine West European countries. While controlling for dependence due to nested data and several covariates, the models are tested for overall offending and separately for violent and property offending. Results confirm that physical child maltreatment is associated with the main concepts of SAT (lower self-control; lower morality; and more exposure to criminogenic environments), which in turn are associated with juvenile delinquency. The models show partial mediation for overall offending, property offending and violent offending. The findings provide support for the theoretical prowess of SAT and its main concepts: self-control, morality and exposure to criminogenic settings as mediators in the well-established physical child maltreatment/delinquency link. These findings are consistent with the ‘cycle of violence’ perspective and contribute to the theoretical clarification of the mechanisms involved in the child maltreatment/delinquency link. The findings fail to confirm a ‘crime-specific propensity’. The article concludes with a discussion of implications for prevention.

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The association between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency in the context of Situational Action Theory: Crime propensity and criminogenic exposure as mediators in a sample of European youth?

Doelman¹,

Luijk

Marshall

et al. 2021

European Journal of Criminology

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“…Severe forms of physical punishment tend to be less common than milder forms. For example, a study by Manzoni and Schwarzenegger (2019) asked 7 th , 8 th , and 9 th graders from 26 countries whether one of their parents ever hit them with an object, punched them, kicked them forcefully, or beat them up. Rates were highest in Venezuela (15.8%), Indonesia (13.4%), and Cape Verde (12.9%) and lowest in Denmark (2.6%) and Kosovo (2.0%).…”

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Cultural Differences in the Association of Harsh Parenting with Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis

Pinquart

2021

J Child Fam Stud

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The goal of the present meta-analysis was to compare associations of harsh parenting with internalizing and externalizing symptoms across regions of the globe and ethnic groups, and to search for moderator effects of indicators of cultural normativeness of harsh parenting. The systematic search in electronic databases and cross-referencing identified 971 studies. Random-effects meta-analyses were computed on bivariate and cross-lagged associations. Harsh parenting was associated with more internalizing and externalizing symptoms in all assessed regions of the globe and in all compared ethnic groups within western countries. Cross-lagged statistical effects of harsh parenting on change in child symptoms were found in North America, Western Europe, Latin America, East Asia, South-East Asia, and North Africa/the Arabian Peninsula, while there were no data from Eastern Europe. In line with the cultural normativeness hypothesis, a few moderating effects of the legal ban of physical punishment of children, acceptance and prevalence of physical punishment, and individualism-collectivism were identified. Externalizing symptoms predicted a stronger increase in harsh parenting if physical punishment was more accepted in the individual country. However, national levels of acceptance of physical punishment did not affect associations of harsh parenting with change in child outcomes. Although most associations of harsh parenting with child symptoms were statistically small (bivariate associations) or very small (cross-lagged associations), it is concluded that parents across the globe should be recommended to avoid harsh parenting. More longitudinal studies are needed for analyzing regional differences in parent and child effects.

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“…As noted above, Agnew (2013) argued that existing survey data do not allow rigorous testing of the propensity hypothesis. Indeed, other studies using ISRD data have also found strong associations between the variables herein included and different types of deviant behavior (Manzoni & Schwarzenegger, 2018;Näsi, Aaltonen, & Kivivuori, 2016;Posick & Gould, 2015). These variables can be linked to other theoretical perspectives which also explain the relationship between victimization and delinquency; however, they identify distinct intervening mechanisms (Hay & Evans, 2006, p. 271).…”

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Victimization, Crime Propensity, and Deviance: A Multinational Test of General Strain Theory

Teijón-Alcalá

Birkbeck

2019

Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice

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General Strain Theory (GST) identifies victimization as one of the strains most strongly related to crime which, like other sources of strain, is moderated by individual and social factors. Recently, Agnew extended the theorization of coping strategies by proposing that the effects of strain on deviance are conditioned by individual and social factors in combination, rather than singly, which he labeled crime propensity. Tests of the propensity hypothesis have so far yielded mixed results, highlighting the value of additional studies. Whereas previous tests have focused on single countries, either in North America or Asia, we test the propensity hypothesis using data on adolescents in 25 countries collected through the International Self-Report Delinquency Study (ISRD3; n = 57,760). A series of ordinary least squares (OLS) regressions show that the relationship between victimization and delinquency/substance use is conditioned by the effects of individuals’ crime propensity, thereby supporting the recent extension to GST.

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The Influence of Earlier Parental Violence on Juvenile Delinquency: The Role of Social Bonds, Self-Control, Delinquent Peer Association and Moral Values as Mediators

Cited by 20 publications

References 26 publications

The association between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency in the context of Situational Action Theory: Crime propensity and criminogenic exposure as mediators in a sample of European youth?

The association between child maltreatment and juvenile delinquency in the context of Situational Action Theory: Crime propensity and criminogenic exposure as mediators in a sample of European youth?

Cultural Differences in the Association of Harsh Parenting with Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms: A Meta-Analysis

Victimization, Crime Propensity, and Deviance: A Multinational Test of General Strain Theory

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