Male and Female Broken Home Rates by Types of Delinquency
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4743218 |
|---|---|
| Authors | H Ashley Weeks (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1940 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 601 |
| Publication date | 1940-08-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2084435 |
| OpenAlex | W2327294184 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
HE broken home generally has been assumed to be associated with juvenile delinquency. Since i9I2, when Breckinridge and Abbott published The Delinquent Child and Home,' virtually all studies of delinquents or adult criminals have found a high percentage of cases from broken homes.2 Case histories, as well as statistical studies, point to broken home as an important factor in personality maladjustment.' Psychiatrists have considered abnormal home environments, including broken home, to be important conditioning factors in delinquent behavior.4 Not only have high percentages of broken homes been found in a delinquent population, but higher percentages of broken homes have been generally shown to exist among female cases than among male cases.6 Various attempts have been made to explain this disparity. Such attempts have resulted in devious and complex discussions which have not clarified question. Inferences have been largely guesses on basis of assumed differences between sexes. T. Earl Sullenger, for example, suggests that reason broken home rate of girls is higher than that of boys is obvious and is due to fact that the girl's life is more closely related to
Criminology · Developmental psychology · Juvenile delinquency · Homelessness and Social Issues · Psychology
Rethinking the Paradigm of Juvenile Delinquency as Related to Divorce
Reimagining stagnant perspectives of family structure
Self-reported delinquency and home life
Female Delinquency and Broken Homes a Re‐assessment
Broken Homes and Middle Class Delinquency a Reassessment
Family Correlates of Male and Female Delinquency
Broken homes, parental psychiatric illness, and female delinquency
Families and Delinquency
The Family Context of Delinquency
Et donc, on doit responsabiliser certaines familles
The Family and Juvenile Delinquency
Attachments, gender, and delinquency
| Citations per year | 0.24 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1975 - 2024 (50) |
| Highly cited | No |