Abuse-Resistant Youth: Some Factors That May Inhibit Violent Criminal Behavior

Kruttschnitt, Candace; Ward, David A.; Sheble, Mary Ann

doi:10.1093/sf/66.2.501

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“…Parents considering such a family transition should, therefore, focus on building and sustaining positive bonds with their children prior to entering a new cohabitation or marriage. Although the factors that condition the impact of family transitions on offending is an area of study that needs more attention from sociological researchers, this finding is consistent with a wider body of literature that promotes social support, including close relationships with parents, as a significant buffer to the negative outcomes following other traumatic events for adolescents (Kaniasty and Norris 1992;Kessler and McLeod 1985;Kruttschnitt, Ward, and Ann Sheble 1987;Runtz and Schallow 1997). Future research should address other factors that might buffer or exacerbate the problems that follow a family transition, such as religiosity, peer deviance, or even neighborhood disorganization.…”

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confidence: 80%

Family Transitions and Juvenile Delinquency*

Schroeder

Osgood

Oghia

2010

Sociological Inquiry

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There is a large body of research that shows children from non-intact homes show higher rates of juvenile delinquency than children from intact homes, partially due to weaker parental control and supervision in non-intact homes. What has not been adequately addressed in the research is the influence of changes in family structure among individual adolescents over time on delinquent offending. Using the first and third waves of the National Youth Study, we assess the effect of family structure changes on changes in delinquent offending between waves through the intermediate process of changes in family time and parental attachment. Although prior research has documented adolescents in broken homes are more delinquent than youth in intact homes, the process of family dissolution is not associated with concurrent increases in offending. In contrast, family formation through marriage or cohabitation is associated with simultaneous increases in offending. Changes in family time and parental attachment account for a portion of the family formation effect on delinquency, and prior parental attachment and juvenile offending significantly condition the effect of family formation on offending.

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Family Transitions and Juvenile Delinquency*

Schroeder

Osgood

Oghia

2010

Sociological Inquiry

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“…While this process is not often used in sociological and criminological research (Lacy 1997), it has been instrumental in providing valuable information about rare events including violent crime (Kruttschnitt, Ward, and Sheble 1987;Shepherd and Brickley 1996), homicide (Goodman et al 1988;Kleck and Hogan 1999), rape (Kruttschnitt 1989), and use of mental health services (Drapeau, Lesage, and Boyer 2005). Since mental health referrals for criminal defendants are rare, this methodology is useful in understanding the process of attributing criminal behavior to mental illness.…”

Section: Case-control Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Race, Gender, and the Social Construction of Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System

Thompson

2010

Sociological Perspectives

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This article tests whether perceptions of "normal" defendants influence the use of psychiatric evaluations in the criminal justice system. The author theorizes that typifications-or taken-for-granted assumptions-of African Americans as "criminals" and women as "mentally ill" will influence court actors' perceptions of the rationality of a defendant's criminal actions. Using case-control sampling methods, the author compiled data from a large Midwestern county to examine the demographic, familial, legal, and psychiatric predictors of which felony defendants receive a psychiatric evaluation; these psychiatric evaluations are indications that the defendant may be considered exempt from criminal responsibility. Using logistic regression, the author finds that mental health status is the best predictor of psychiatric evaluations but that criminal justice decision-makers' attributions of criminal responsibility are also influenced by typifications of defendants based on race and gender.

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“…Kruschnitt, Ward, and Sheble (1987) point out the relationship between negative home environment and adult relationships. Those researchers looked at the claim that delinquent behavior in children is almost always related to the children's child abuse experiences.…”

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Adult Survivors of Child Abuse: An Application of John Gottman’s Sound Marital House Theory

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The purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between child abuse and dysfunctional adult relationship patterns. John Gottman's Sound Marital House Theory describes different dysfunctional adult relationship patterns including Negative Sentiment Override (NSO), Flooding, and the Distance and Isolation Cascade. In the present study, data analysis indicated that child abuse predicts the experiencing of NSO, NSO predicts the experiencing of flooding, and flooding predicts the experiencing of the distance and isolation cascade. Analysis showed that a subscale of child abuse, negative home environment predicts NSO, flooding, and the distance and isolation cascade.

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Abuse-Resistant Youth: Some Factors That May Inhibit Violent Criminal Behavior

Cited by 44 publications

References 46 publications

Family Transitions and Juvenile Delinquency*

Family Transitions and Juvenile Delinquency*

Race, Gender, and the Social Construction of Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System

Adult Survivors of Child Abuse: An Application of John Gottman’s Sound Marital House Theory

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