Family context has been identified as a central domain in the study of delinquency,
particularly during early childhood. As youth enter adolescence peer associations become a …

Scholars interested in delinquency have focused much attention on the influence of parent
and peer relationships. Prior research has assumed that parents control delinquency …

There is a long tradition of studying parent–child relationships and adolescent delinquency.
However, the association between parent–child relationships and criminal offending during …

As the primary socializing institution of youth, the family has long been recognized as
important for predicting delinquency. Social control theory focuses on the effects of parental …

Explored the longitudinal relations between family relationships and parenting
characteristics, violence and nonviolent delinquency of peers, and individual delinquency …

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the nature and direction of the relationship
between parenting and peer effects in predicting early delinquency. The parenting–peer …

Abstract Effects of ethnicity and neighborhood quality often are confounded in research on
adolescent delinquent behavior. This study examined the pathways to delinquency among …

Research indicates that children are at risk for delinquency if they live in a single-parent
family and if they live in areas with high levels of family disruption. Although there is a …

The present study empirically examined three theoretical approaches designed to predict
risk for delinquency during adolescence: an individual difference perspective, a social …

Prior theories of delinquency and child development suggest that specific combinations of
family factors should disproportionately decrease the probability of children's deviance …