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Family Factors as Correlates and Predictors of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency

Loeber, Rolf, Stouthamer-Loeber, Magda·1986·Crime and Justice
DOI 10.1086/449112
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A meta-analysis was performed of concurrent and longitudinal studies on the relation of family factors to juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Analyses of longitudinal data show that socialization variables, such as lack of parental supervision, parental rejection, and parent-child involvement, are among the most powerful predictors of juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Medium-strength predictors include background variables such as parents' marital relations and parental criminality. Weaker predictors are lack of parental discipline, parental health, and parental absence. The effect of these factors seems to be about the same for boys and for girls. Analyses of concurrent studies comparing delinquents with nondelinquents, and aggressive children with nonaggressive children, largely parallel these findings. Data from concurrent normal samples, however, show less importance for parental child socialization practices and relatively more importance for the child's rejection of the parent and the parent's rejection of the child. A small proportion of families produces a disproportionate number of delinquents. The presence of one child with delinquency, aggression, or covert conduct problems increases the probability that other children in the family will exhibit those behaviors. Deficiencies in parenting skills are associated with the seriousness of the child's delinquency. Treatment studies demonstrate that systematic changes in parenting behaviors can lessen the f…

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  • The present meta-analysis includes many new investigations completed after the Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber review.

    “the present meta-analysis includes many new investigations that have been completed since the Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber review.”

    From The Relationship Between Parenting and Delinquency: A Meta-analysis (2009) · cites this paper as Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber 1986

  • Only one earlier meta-analysis examined the association between various aspects of parenting and delinquency.

    “Only one previous meta-analysis considered the association between various aspects of parenting and delinquency”

    From The Relationship Between Parenting and Delinquency: A Meta-analysis (2009) · cites this paper as Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber 1986

  • The results agree with Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber's finding that parental rejection and poor supervision were among the best predictors of delinquency.

    “These results are in accordance with the finding of Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber (1986) that parental rejection and poor supervision were among the best predictors of delinquency.”

    From The Relationship Between Parenting and Delinquency: A Meta-analysis (2009) · cites this paper as Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber (1986)

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Authors
Loeber, R., & Stouthamer-Loeber, M.
Venue
Crime and Justice
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Published
1986-01
Volume
7
Pages
29-149
ISSN
  • 0192-3234 (ISSN-L)
  • 2153-0416
DOI
10.1086/449112
OpenAlex
W2004768199
Cited by
1,409
References
0
Citations by year
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FWCI
60.70
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
Crime and Justice (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Keywords
juvenile delinquency, family factors, parenting practices, parental supervision, parental rejection, parental discipline, parental criminality, parental absence, child aggression, parenting support

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