Family Social Capital and Delinquent Behavior in the United Kingdom

Hoffmann, John P.; Thorpe, Jared; Dufur, Mikaela J.

doi:10.3390/socsci9100178

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“…This may be directly related to parental values. Hoffmann et al (2020) demonstrated that the number, gender, and especially the age of children in families with less social capital directly affect how much the parents invest in educational resources. However, another study ( Zhu, 2019 ) suggested that the development of national modernization has weakened the influence of hereditary factors such as sex and race on children’s access to education.…”

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Family capital, social stratification, and access to higher education: An empirical study in mainland China

Tan

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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This paper employs Bourdieu’s theory of capital—focusing on family cultural, social, and economic capital—to research the early-stage mechanism through which access to higher education is formed. While all three types of capital play a significant role in acquiring higher education, most studies tend to focus on just one type of capital. In recent years, domestic scholars have also analyzed in detail the family factors affecting children’s access to higher education (CAHE); however, they have not yet explained the mechanism by which these factors influence CAHE, and authentic tests are rare. Therefore, based on existing research, this paper uses the theoretical concept of family capital to reveal how contemporary Chinese families affect their CAHE. This paper analyzes the relationship between family capital, social stratification, and access to higher education opportunities using an econometric model based on baseline data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) from 2010 to 2020, with 10,318 participants, including 4,419 females and 5,899 males. The results of a binary logistic regression analysis show that the possession of family cultural and economic capital has a direct positive influence on CAHE. Children from the elite stratum often benefit more from the accumulation of family cultural capital. Moreover, although it does not form a distinct stratum, the possession of family social capital also significantly influences children’s access to higher education. Driven by China’s political, economic, and social environment, some children from the blue-collar stratum have a comparative advantage in terms of access to higher education. The possession of family capital is an important factor in the stratification of CAHE, and cultural capital is the most influential type of capital. Parents with a low level of education should be encouraged to become engaged in schools and communities to take professional courses in assisted learning, emotional counseling, decision-making, and voluntary service.

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Family capital, social stratification, and access to higher education: An empirical study in mainland China

Tan

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Front. Psychol.

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“…At S6, the young person questionnaire was administered to youth participants, which asked a series of questions pertaining to adolescent delinquency [ 68 , 69 ]. This series of questions included 11 items pertaining to delinquent activities in which the youth may have engaged in the 12 months prior to the survey.…”

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Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescent Delinquency: A Theoretically Informed Investigation of Mediators during Middle Childhood

Jackson

Jones

Semenza

et al. 2023

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Objective: The purposes of this study are twofold. First, we explore the associations between cumulative ACEs at ages 5 and 7 and delinquency at age 14 in a national sample of youth in the United Kingdom (UK). Second, we explore the role of five theoretically relevant mediators in explaining this relationship. Methods: Analyses were based on data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study—a prospective, longitudinal birth-cohort study of more than 18,000 individuals in the United Kingdom. Results: The results indicate that early ACEs are significantly associated with adolescent delinquency, with effects becoming significantly larger as ACEs accumulate. Findings also reveal that child property delinquency, substance use, low self-control, unstructured socializing, and parent–child attachment at age 11 all significantly mediate the relationship between early ACEs and delinquency in adolescence, with early delinquency and low self-control emerging as the most robust mediators. Conclusions: Findings point to a need for early ACEs screening and a Trauma-Informed Health Care (TIC) approach in early delinquency prevention efforts. Early intervention efforts that bolster child self-control and curtail early-onset problem behaviors may also disrupt pathways from ACEs to adolescent delinquency.

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“…Thus, numerous studies independently established that adversity is associated with an increased delinquency rate and neighborhood social capital is associated with a reduced delinquency rate [84]. The reason can be understood from the study of Barton et al [85] that social capital in different forms is associated with greater prosocial behaviors.…”

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Influence of Childhood Adversity on Students’ Delinquent Activities: Interplay with Neighborhood Context and Delinquent Peer Association

Khan,

Tang

2023

New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development

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Juvenile delinquency is often linked with various proximal family and environmental factors during a child’s upbringing. Richard Jessor’s problem behavior theory (PBT) emphasizes that a combined interplay of these factors may explain this phenomenon appropriately. This study employed the PBT framework to investigate the impact of family on students’ delinquency, considering the influence of neighborhood and delinquent peer association. A model was developed for analyzing the variables by structural equation modeling (SEM). Data were collected through interviews with 1026 students aged between 12 and 18 years from a child development center and eight educational institutes in Bangladesh. The findings revealed that family-level factors (adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and family deprivation) can significantly predict students’ delinquency directly and through the moderation effect of neighborhood-level variables (neighborhood social capital and neighborhood disorganization). Delinquent peer association exhibited a significant mediating role in the model. It could directly predict delinquency as well. The research has notable theoretical and practical implications for understanding the complex dynamics of family, neighborhood, and delinquent peer association in explaining students’ delinquency.

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Family Social Capital and Delinquent Behavior in the United Kingdom

Cited by 7 publications

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Family capital, social stratification, and access to higher education: An empirical study in mainland China

Family capital, social stratification, and access to higher education: An empirical study in mainland China

Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescent Delinquency: A Theoretically Informed Investigation of Mediators during Middle Childhood

Influence of Childhood Adversity on Students’ Delinquent Activities: Interplay with Neighborhood Context and Delinquent Peer Association

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