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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.
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
Includes bibliographical references: pages 57-61.