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The present study examined relationships between parental monitoring (mother and father), self‐esteem, and delinquency among 95 adjudicated Mexican American male adolescents who were on probationary status with the juvenile justice system. Consistent with previous literature pertaining to familial processes and delinquency among the general adolescent population, findings from the current study revealed that parental monitoring was negatively associated with delinquency. In addition, self‐esteem was shown to be positively correlated with delinquency. These results highlight the generalizability of previous research related to familial, emotional, and behavioral processes among Mexican American male adolescents.

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We thank Joyce Fujimaki, Heidi Kwok, and Aimee Truong for their assistance in collecting and entering data and Rebecca Zwick for her assistance with data analysis. Financial support for this project was provided by the

We examined and compared the influence of home and school environments to the affective (anxiety and depression) and behavioral (impulsivity and compliance) states of 626 African American, Caucasian, and Hispanic adjudicated juvenile offenders. African Americans showed the strongest relationship between their home environment and compliance. Caucasian and Hispanic males exhibited increased home and school environment problems associated with affective states. Among females, African American and Caucasian females exhibited the strongest relationships between their home environment and behavioral states, whereas Caucasian and Hispanic males revealed increased school environment problems related to affective states with Hispanic males showing the strongest relationships. In addition, the school environment was more predictive of the affective and behavioral states of the adolescents, particularly females.Adolescence is a critical period in one's life in which he or she undergoes a significant amount of developmental and personal change, which is at times, accompanied by stress that is related to their personal, social, and educational development that places them in vulnerable positions to engage in maladaptive or delinquent behaviors. Research has shown that specific home environment factors, including a negative relationship between an adolescent and their parent(s) or caregiver(s), poor or inconsistent discipline, lack of parental supervision and monitoring, a lack of positive support, history of criminal offending among parent(s), a lack of parental control and neglect, child maltreatment, and poverty is related to the increases in juvenile delinquency and offending with more serious offenders experiencing R. M. Caldwell ( ) · S. M. Sturges