Citation

Liu L, Miller SL. Soc. Sci. Res. 2020; 86: 102376.

Affiliation

Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. Electronic address: slmiller@udel.edu.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2020, Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102376

PMID

32056565

Abstract

Youth's social bonds' with conventional social institutions (e.g., family and school) and parental management of youth's leisure time represent two dimensions of suppressants against juvenile delinquency. Using Multivariate regression, this paper assesses these two dimensions of factors simultaneously on youth's aggressive and non-aggressive delinquency, and examines if their effects are gender sensitive.

FINDINGS suggest that girls have significantly lower involvement in both aggressive and non-aggressive delinquency than boys. However, girls are disproportionately involved in non-aggressive delinquency. Parental monitoring protects boys and girls distinctively on aggressive delinquency; this factor has a more pronounced inhibitory effect on girls' aggressive behavior. This study elucidates that there is a gendered pattern in adolescent delinquency, and that gender moderates the effect of some protective factor.

Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier Inc.

Language: en

Keywords

Attachment to parents; Gender socialization; Juvenile delinquency; Parental monitoring; School attachment