Attributions of Delinquency by Delinquent Minors, Their Families, and Probation Officers

Sagatun, Inger J.

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“…Most commonly, researchers have examined parent-child interaction from the parents' perspective (Margalit, 1985). Researchers in the area of family communication rarely focus on children's perceptions, yet these viewpoints are necessary in providing a comprehensive picture of the family environment (Amato, 1990;Sagatun, 1991;Zaslow & Takanishi, 1993). Furman and Buhrmester (1985) compared children's perceptions of various types of relationships and suggested that future research be conducted to explore the relationship between children's perceptions and existent interactional patterns within the family.…”

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Preteens Talking to Parents: Perceived Communication and School-Based Aggression

Lambert

Cashwell

2004

The Family Journal

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Abstract:In order to combat escalating aggression and violence in schools, it is important to understand the relationship between intrafamilial communication and aggressive behaviors. In this study, the authors examined the link between preadolescents' perceptions of parent-child communication and their levels ofschool-based aggressive behavior. The results indicate that perceived effective communication was highestfor mother-girl dyads, followed in order by mother-boy, father-boy, and father-girl dyads. Second, no difference between preadolescents' levels of aggressive behaviors in school on the basis of gender of child was found. Finally, the results indicated that preadolescents' perceptions of effective parent-child communication were negatively correlated with school-based aggression. Implications for prevention and intervention strategies are discussed.

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Preteens Talking to Parents: Perceived Communication and School-Based Aggression

Lambert

Cashwell

2004

The Family Journal

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“…As Goldstein (1990) pointed out, adolescents are required to confront the issues involved with offending behaviour in their daily lives, and to consider the impact of these issues both in their own lives and in those of the friends and peers around them. The few studies which have used juveniles (Abrams et al, 1987;Kraus, 1977;Pfeffer, Cole, & Dada, 1996, 1998Reuterman & Durbin, 1988;Sagatum, 1991) indicate that juveniles also use multiple explanations of offending behaviour and that they tend to use more external explanations (Reuterman & Durbin, 1988;Sagaturn, 1991).…”

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Australian adolescents' explanations of juvenile delinquency

Tyson¹,

Hubert²

2000

Australian Journal of Psychology

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Research suggests that lay people invoke a multiplicity of causes to explain crime and juvenile offending. The extent to which the different explanations are endorsed appears to be partly a function of demographic characteristics. Abrams, Simpson, and Hogg (1987) suggested that those who are in psychological proximity to delinquency are more likely to invoke situational type explanations for juvenile offending rather than dispositional ones. This study tests this proximity hypothesis and provides information on Australian adolescents' explanations of juvenile delinquency. A total of 3,171 secondary school pupils from 25 state high schools in New South Wales rated 39 explanations for juvenile offending on a Likert scale. Principal component analysis and a varimax rotation of the responses identified six factors: home environment, emotional adjustment, social control, impulsivity, innate, and social alienation. Analysis of the scores on these factors showed that there was some support for the proximity hypothesis.

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“…Many social scientists have explored the role of parental involvement in child development (Lamb ) and specifically in the contexts of positively improving academic outcomes (Coleman , ; Kim and Schneider ; Morgan and Sørensen ; Parcel and Menaghan ; Teachman, Paasch and Carver ) and in reducing the likelihood of participation in crime and delinquency (Knafo and Plomin ; McNeal jr ; Parcel and Menaghan , ; Patterson and Dishion ; Sagatun ; Smith and Stern ; Thompson, Hollis and Richards ; Wright and Cullen ). Despite some concerns as to the bounds and specificity of the concept (Morrow ; Portes ), a number of these studies have deployed the concept of social capital formation in the family to help label the family processes and interactions involved in generating these positive outcomes for children.…”

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‘I Blame the Parents’: Analysing Popular Support for the Deficient Household Social Capital Transmission Thesis

Collins

Cox²,

Leonard³

2014

The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice

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This article explores belief in parental deficiency as a causal factor of youth anti‐social behaviour and crime. Empirical interrogation of household interview data from a UK city considers whether there is widespread support for blaming parents. Somewhat surprisingly, lower‐income households and those containing young people, are found to be more likely to consider parental responsibility a problem. Most notably, a tendency to blame the parents strongly associates with a perception that people in the area do not treat each other with respect.

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Attributions of Delinquency by Delinquent Minors, Their Families, and Probation Officers

Cited by 13 publications

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Preteens Talking to Parents: Perceived Communication and School-Based Aggression

Preteens Talking to Parents: Perceived Communication and School-Based Aggression

Australian adolescents' explanations of juvenile delinquency

‘I Blame the Parents’: Analysing Popular Support for the Deficient Household Social Capital Transmission Thesis

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