Conceptions of criminal and delinquent acts

Gibbs, Jack P.; Erickson, Maynard L.

doi:10.1080/01639625.1979.9967514

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“…Further, Gottfredson and Hirschi (1990) suggest that parents' attachment to a child motivates them to monitor and sanction the child's behavior. It is noteworthy that no empirical study has tested this feature of their general theory (see, e.g., Gibbs et al, 1998).…”

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Parental Efficacy and Delinquent Behavior: Do Control and Support Matter?

2001

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Recently, the concept of “collective efficacy” has been advanced to understand how communities exert control and provide support to reduce crime. In a similar way, we use the concept of “parental efficacy” to highlight the crime reducing effects associated with parents who support and control their youth. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), we examine the inter‐relationship between parental controls and supports and their joint influence on youthful misbehavior. The results show that (1) support and control are intertwined, and (2) that parental efficacy exerts substantive effects on adolescent delinquency for the sample as a whole and across varying age groups.

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Section: Parenting and Delinquent Involvementmentioning

confidence: 99%