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.
Recommended Citation
Beaver, Kevin M.; Schwartz, Joesph A.; Connolly, Eric J.; Al-Ghamdi, Mohammed Said; and Kobeisy, Ahmed Nezar, "The Role of Parenting in the Prediction of Criminal Involvement: Findings From a Nationally Representative Sample of Youth and a Sample of Adopted Youth" (2015). Criminology and Criminal Justice Faculty Publications. 19.
https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/criminaljusticefacpub/19
Comments
© 2015 American Psychological Association. The final published version of this article can be found at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/a0038672.
This article may not exactly replicate the final version published in the APA journal. It is not the copy of record.