Ch 10 PPT - Family Influences of Delinquency Chapter 10...

Family Influences of Delinquency
Chapter 10

Overview
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Crime Runes in Families
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Large Family Size
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Child-Rearing Methods
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Child Abuse and Neglect
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Parental Conflict and Disrupted Families
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Other Parental Features
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Key Methodological Issues

Introduction
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Family factors influence delinquency
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Best predictors of delinquency:
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antisocial parents
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male gender
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low socio-economic status of the family
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psychological factors

Crime Runes in Families
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Criminal and antisocial parents tend to have
delinquent and antisocial children
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Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
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Pittsburgh Youth Study
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6 possible explanations
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Intergenerational continuities in exposure to
multiple risk factors
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Assortative mating
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social homogamy/ phenotypic assortment

Crime Runes in Families
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6 possible explanations (cont)
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Direct and mutual influences of family members
on each other
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Environmental mechanisms mediate effect
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Genetic mechanisms mediate effect
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Official (police and court) bias against known
criminal families