A theoretical development and empirical assessment of the effects of child abuse and neglect on juvenile delinquency /
In order to more thoroughly examine the relationship phics.
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| Format: | Thesis Book |
| Language: | English |
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1998.
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| Summary: | In order to more thoroughly examine the relationship phics. between child maltreatment and subsequent delinquency, this study examines the individual effects of child abuse and child neglect on juvenile delinquency. A sample of 908 maltreated children is compared to a control group matched on age, sex, race, and SES. Using tobit analysis to account for bias due to left- censoring of the dependent variable, the analysis suggests that, controlling for race and gender, the maltreated youth are more delinquent than youth in the control group. When the elects of abuse and neglect are analyzed separately, the models provide evidence that neglect has a stronger elect than abuse on delinquency. In addition, youth with multiple instances of maltreatment were found to be more delinquent than youth with only one recorded instance. The models also suggest that maltreatment has a larger impact on primary delinquency as compared to secondary delinquency. Finally, race conditions the elect of maltreatment on delinquency, such that maltreatment had a more detrimental elect on minority subjects than whites. The current endings provide support for social control theory and general strain theory as theoretical linkages through which maltreatment influences delinquency. Social learning theory, or the modeling of parental behavior by the child subjects, was not found to be a primary theoretical mechanism through which maltreatment increases general delinquency. |
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| Item Description: | "Major subject: Sociology". Vita. |
| Physical Description: | vii, 62 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references: pages 57-61. |