The Impact of Family Structure and Quality on Delinquency
A Comparative Assessment of Structural and Functional Factors
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9679697 |
|---|---|
| Authors | PATRICIA VAN VOORHIS (University of Cincinnati, corresponding author), Francis T Cullen (0000-0003-4975-915X, University of Cincinnati), Richard A Mathers (Western Illinois University), CONNIE CHENOWETH GARNER (McDonough County Health Department) |
| Year | 1988 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 235-261 |
| Publication date | 1988-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Criminology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-1384 • E-ISSN: 1745-9125 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1745-9125.1988.tb00840.x |
| OpenAlex | W2054698039 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 62 |
| References cited | 29 |
Despite the plethora of studies of broken homes, multivariate studies comparing the effects of the broken home and other theoretically relevant measures of the quality of family life are rare. This study examines the family structure versus family function issue by testing the comparative effects on self‐reported delinquency of family structure and jive measures of family function. Five types of delinquency are considered. The data were obtained from a 1980 survey of 152 high school students in a small midwestern town. Item analysis and data reduction techniques were employed to construct six family quality indices and jive delinquency indices. Two types of family structure were examined: presence of both biological parents in the home v. other and single‐ v. two‐parent homes. Multivariate analyses controlled for the effects of age and gender. Bivariate tests of the relationships between broken homes and delinquency were not significant, except for a moderate relationship between broken homes and status offenses. In addition, a bivariate relation between single‐parent homes and delinquency was observed for status offenses only. Other forms of family dysfunction all were significantly related to overall delinquency and to status offenses. Moreover, several measures of family quality evidenced significant bivariate relationships to property offenses. violent offenses, and drug offenses. The importance of the broken home was further diminished when the direct effects of broken homes and home quality were examined in multivariate tests. Regression equations showed home quality and gender, rather than family structure, to be the more important determinants of delinquency. The family structure coefficient was significant in only 1 of 10 tests, a regression of broken home and home quality on status offenses. Efforts to expand the analysis to identify specific areas of family dysfunction were unenlightening
Bivariate analysis · Developmental psychology · Juvenile delinquency · Multivariate analysis · Parental supervision · Quality (philosophy · Statistics · Crime Patterns and Interventions · Homelessness and Social Issues · Mathematics · Psychology · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
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Adolescent maltreatment, negative emotion, and delinquency
The impact of parental controls on delinquency
The contextual nature of the family structure/delinquency relationship
Temperamental and familial predictors of violent and nonviolent criminal convictions
Parental Attachments and Delinquency
Parental Management
Decomposing the Peer Effect on Adolescent Substance Use
Neighborhood Context and Nonlinear Peer Effects on Adolescent Violent Crime
Sibling Resemblance in Juvenile Delinquency
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Child Maltreatment and Youthful Problem Behavior
On the Relationship Between Family Structure and Antisocial Behavior
Parental Efficacy and Delinquent Behavior
A Theoretical and Empirical Assessment of Power-Control Theory and Single-Mother Families
Factors Related to Female Adolescent Initiation into Violent Street Crime
Female Adolescents' Delinquent Activity
Social Control Theory as a Theory of Conformity
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Neighborhood Context and the Gender Gap in Adolescent Violent Crime
Family relationships and delinquent behavior.
American delinquency
Understanding crime
Juvenile delinquency
Interpreting and Using Regression
Family Status and the Delinquent Child
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Are Children with One Parent at Psychological Risk? A Methodological Review
Family Factors as Correlates and Predictors of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency
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Family Correlates of Male and Female Delinquency
Sex and Delinquency
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Contributions of Families and Peers to Delinquency
The significance of a child's age at the time of parental divorce
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On Complicating the Relationship between Liberation and Delinquency
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