“…These factors include parenting, maltreatment, family violence, divorce, parental psychopathology, familial antisocial behaviours, teenage parenthood, family structure, and family size. (Bui, 2009;Cicchetti & Rogosch, 2002;Derzon, 2010;Maas, Herrenkohl, & Sousa, 2008;Wasserman et al, 2003) In conclusion the deviant peers contribute to serious offending by child delinquents during the period of their transition to adolescence (Dodge, Dishion, & Lansford, 2006;Maschi, Carolyn, & Morgen, 2008;Meldrum, Young, & Weerman, 2009;Schreck & Fisher, 2004;Taylor, Peterson, Esbensen, & Freng, 2007;Vitulano, Fite, & Rathert, 2010).…”