Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2015

Publication Title

Developmental Psychology

Volume

51

Issue

3

First Page

301

Last Page

308

Abstract

The role of parenting in the development of criminal behavior has been the source of a vast amount of research, with the majority of studies detecting statistically significant associations between dimensions of parenting and measures of criminal involvement. An emerging group of scholars, however, has drawn attention to the methodological limitations—mainly genetic confounding—of the parental socialization literature. The current study addressed this limitation by analyzing a sample of adoptees to assess the association between 8 parenting measures and 4 criminal justice outcome measures. The results revealed very little evidence of parental socialization effects on criminal behavior before controlling for genetic confounding and no evidence of parental socialization effects on criminal involvement after controlling for genetic confounding.

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© 2015 American Psychological Association. The final published version of this article can be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038672.

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