This article develops a theoretical model that links the gendered ideologies and work and family roles of mothers to juvenile delinquency. I test the model using the National Survey of Children and covariance structure analysis. The results demonstrate that adolescents of mothers who are employed and...
The findings also show that the perceived threat of legal punishment is positively related to offenders' perceptions of the seriousness of delinquency. The findings bear on the normative validation thesis in the sociology of law and have important policy implications for juvenile justice practices....
A binary model of broken home: parental death-divorce hypothesis of male juvenile delinquency in Nigeria and Ghana. In: Maxwell, S.R., Blair, S.L. (Eds.), Violence and Crime in the Family: Patterns, Causes, and Consequences, ... S Ibrahim - 《Contemporary Perspectives in Family Research...
It’s the lattermost film thatDarkoŠtante’sConsequenceshews towards due to its concerns with hypermasculine posturing, delinquency, and the difficulty of being closeted in a virulently heteronormative social milieu. And, likeBeach Rats, the protagonist is forced to walk a razor-thin line; so ...
Neglect is the most common form of child maltreatment. Repeated calls have implored the scientific community to remedy the “neglect of neglect,” the paucity of research on neglect relative to abuse. Barriers to the advancement of scientific knowledge and to tackling this intractable public health ...
J. Robert Lilly is Regents Professor of Sociology/Criminology and Adjunct Professor of Law at Northern Kentucky University. His research interests include the pattern of capital crimes committed by U.S. soldiers during World War II, the “commercial–corrections complex,” juvenile delinquency, house...
Today, children are surviving pediatric cancer at unprecedented rates, making it one of modern medicine’s true success stories. However, we are incre
General strain theory (GST; Agnew, 1992, Agnew, 2016) focuses on understanding how different types of experiences produce individual strain. At a broad level, GST elucidates the emotional, social, and psychological processes that contribute to crime and delinquency. GST posits that exposure to certa...
Source: Heather A. Turner, “The Effect of Lifetime Victimization on the Mental Health of Children and Adolescents,” Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 62, No. 1, (January 2006), pp. 13-27. A study of 109 juvenile offenders indicated that family structure significantly predicts delinquency. ...
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