How do families matter? age and gender differences in family influences on delinquency and drug use

Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 150-170

  Fagan, Abigail A ^a   van Horn, M Lee ^a   Antaramian, Susan ^a   Hawkins, J David ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

delinquency; family focused prevention programs; gender; life course criminology; substance use

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952646161     PISSN: 15412040     EISSN: 15569330     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1541204010377748     Document Type: Article

References (78)

1. Alarid, L.F., Burton, V.S., Jr., & Cullen, F.T. (2000). Gender and crime among felony offenders: Assessing the generality of social control and differential association theories. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 37, 171-199.
2. Arthur, M.W., Hawkins, J.D., Pollard, J.A., Catalano, R.F., & Baglioni, A.J. (2002). Measuring risk and protective factors for substance use, delinquency, and other adolescent problem behaviors: The Communities That Care Youth Survey. Evaluation Review, 26, 575-601.
3. Asparouhov, T. (2006). General multi-level modeling with sampling weights. Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, 35, 439-460.
4. Blitstein, J.L., Murray, D.M., Lytle, L.A., Birnbaum, A.S., & Perry, C.L. (2005). Predictors of violent behavior in an early adolescent cohort: Similarities and differences across genders. Health Education and Behavior, 32, 175-194.
5. Blum, J., Ireland, M., & Blum, R.W. (2003). Gender differences in youth violence: A report from add health. Journal of Adolescent Health, 32, 234-240.
6. Blumstein, A., Cohen, J., Roth, J.A., & Visher, C.A. (1986). Criminal careers and career criminals. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
7. Bollen, K., & Lennox, R. (1991). Conventional wisdom on measurement: A structural equation perspective. Psychological Bulletin, 110, 305-314.
8. Bollen, K.A., & Davis, W.R. (1994). Causal indicator models: Identification, estimation, and testing. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
9. Bottcher, J. (1995). Gender as social control: A qualitative study of incarcerated youths and their siblings in greater Sacramento. Justice Quarterly, 12, 33-57.
10. Bricker, J.B., Peterson, A.V., Jr., Sarason, I.G., Andersen, M.R., & Rajan, K.B. (2007). Changes in the influence of parents' and close friends' smoking on adolescent smoking transitions. Addictive Behaviors, 32, 740-757.
11. Bronte-Tinkew, J., Moore, K.A., & Carrano, J. (2006). The father-child relationship, parenting styles, and adolescent risk behaviors in intact families. Journal of Family Issues, 27, 850-881.
12. Burton, V.S., Jr., Cullen, F.T., Evans, T.D., Dunaway, R.G., Ketheneni, S.R., & Payne, G.L. (1995). The impact of parental controls on delinquency. Journal of Criminal Justice, 23, 111-126.
13. Canter, R.J. (1982). Family correlates of male and female delinquency. Criminology, 20, 149-167.
14. Catalano, R.F., & Hawkins, J.D. (1996). The social development model: A theory of antisocial behavior. In J. D. Hawkins (Ed.), Delinquency and crime: Current theories (pp. 149-197). New York, NY: Cambridge University Press.
15. Cernkovich, S., & Giordano, P.C. (1987). Family relationships and delinquency. Criminology, 25, 295-319.
16. Chesney-Lind, M. (1997). The female offender: Girls, women and crime. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
17. Cohen, P., Cohen, J., Teresi, J., Marchi, M., & Velez, C.N. (1990). Problems in the measurement model of latent variables in structural equations causal models. Applied Psychological Measurement, 14, 183-196.
18. Crosnoe, R., Erickson, K.G., & Dornbusch, S.M. (2002). Protective functions of family relationships and school factors on the deviant behavior of adolescent boys and girls: Reducing the impact of risky friendships. Youth and Society, 33, 515-544.
19. Daigle, L.E., Cullen, F.T., & Wright, J.P. (2007). Gender differences in the predictors of juvenile delinquency. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice, 5, 254-286.
20. Dishion, T.J., Nelson, S.E., & Bullock, B.M. (2004). Premature adolescent autonomy: Parent disengagement and deviant peer process in the amplification of problem behaviour. Journal of Adolescence, 27, 515-530.
21. Elliott, D.S. (1994). Serious violent offenders: Onset, developmental course, and termination-The American Society of Criminology 1993 Presidential Address. Criminology, 32, 1-21.
22. Fagan, A.A., Van Horn, M.L., Hawkins, J.D., & Arthur, M. (2007). Gender similarities and differences in the association between risk and protective factors and self-reported serious delinquency. Prevention Science, 8, 115-124.
23. Farrington, D.P. (1986). Age and crime. In M. Tonry & N. Morris (Eds.), Crime and justice: An annual review of the research (Vol. 7, pp. 189-250). Chicago, IL: Chicago University Press.
24. Farrington, D.P. (2003). Developmental and life-course criminology: Key theoretical and empirical issues- The 2002 Sutherland Award Address. Criminology, 41, 221-255.
25. Farrington, D.P., & Painter, K.A. (2004). Gender differences in offending: Implications for risk-focused prevention. Retrieved November 1, 2007, from http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/rds/pdfs2/rdsolr0904.pdf.
26. Fergusson, D.M., & Horwood, L.J. (2002). Male and female offending trajectories. Development and Psychopathology, 14, 159-177.
27. Flora, D.B., & Curran, P.J. (2004). An empirical evaluation of alternative methods of estimation for confirmatory factor analysis with ordinal data. Psychological Methods, 9, 466-491.
28. Glaser, R.R., Van Horn, M.L., Arthur, M.W., Hawkins, J.D., & Catalano, R.F. (2005). Measurement properties of the Communities That Care Youth Survey across demographic groups. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 21, 73-102.
29. Gottfredson, M.R., & Hirschi, T. (1990). A general theory of crime. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
30. Greenfeld, L.A., & Snell, T.L. (1999). Women offenders. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
31. Hawkins, J.D., Catalano, R.F., Arthur, M.W., Egan, E., Brown, E.C., Abbott, R.D., & Murray, D.M. (2008). Testing communities that care: The rationale, design and behavioral baseline equivalence of the community youth development study. Prevention Science, 9, 178-190.
32. Hawkins, J.D., Herrenkohl, T.I., Farrington, D.P., Brewer, D., Catalano, R.F., & Harachi, T.W. (1998). A review of predictors of youth violence. In R. Loeber & D. P. Farrington (Eds.), Serious and violent juvenile offenders (pp. 106-146). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
33. Heimer, K., & De Coster, S. (1999). The gendering of violent delinquency. Criminology, 37, 277-318.
34. Herrenkohl, T.I., Hill, K.G., Hawkins, J.D., Chung, I.-J., & Nagin, D.S. (2006). Developmental trajectories of family management and risk for violent behavior in adolescence. Journal of Adolescent Health, 39, 206-213.
35. Herrenkohl, T.I., Maguin, E., Hill, K.G., Hawkins, J.D., Abbott, R.D., & Catalano, R.F. (2000). Developmental risk factors for youth violence. Journal of Adolescent Health, 26, 176-186.
36. Hill, G.D., & Atkinson, M.P. (1988). Gender, familial control, and delinquency. Criminology, 26, 127-147.
37. Hirschi, T. (1969). Causes of delinquency. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
38. Hoeve, M., Dubas, J.S., Eichelsheim, V.I., Van der Laan, P.H., Smeenk, W., & Gerris, J.R.M. (2009). The relationship between parenting and delinquency: A meta-analysis. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37, 749-775.
39. Holden, G.W., & Miller, P.C. (1999). Enduring and different: A meta-analysis of the similarity in parents' child rearing. Psychological Bulletin, 125, 223-254.
40. Jang, S.J. (1999). Age-varying effects of family, school, and peers on delinquency: A multilevel modeling test of interactional theory. Criminology, 37, 643-686.
41. Jang, S.J. (2002). The effects of family, school, peers, and attitudes on adolescent's drug use: Do they vary with age? Justice Quarterly, 19, 97-126.
42. Jang, S.J., & Krohn, M.D. (1995). Developmental patterns of sex differences in delinquency among African American adolescents: A test of the sex-invariance hypothesis. Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 11, 195-222.
43. Jarvis, C.B., MacKenzie, S.B., & Podsakoff, P.M. (2003). A critical review of construct indicators and measurement model misspecification in marketing and consumer research. Journal of Consumer Research, 30, 199-218.
44. Keenan, K., & Shaw, D. (1997). Developmental and social influences on young girls' early problem behavior. Psychological Bulletin, 121, 95-113.
45. Kroneman, L., Loeber, R., Hipwell, A.E., & Koot, H.M. (2009). Girls' disruptive behavior and its relationship to family functioning: A review. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 18, 259-273.
46. Kruttschnitt, C., & Giordano, P.C. (2009). Family influences on girls' delinquency. In M. A. Zahn (Ed.), The delinquent girl (pp. 107-126). Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press.
47. Kumpfer, K.L., & Alvarado, R. (2003). Family-strengthening approaches for the prevention of youth problem behaviors. American Psychologist, 58, 457-465.
48. Laird, R.D., Pettit, G.S., Dodge, K.A., & Bates, J.E. (2003). Change in parents' monitoring knowledge: Links with parenting, relationship quality, adolescent beliefs, and antisocial behavior. Social Development, 12, 419.
49. Laundra, K.H., Kiger, G., & Bahr, S.J. (2002). A social development model of serious delinquency: Examining gender differences. The Journal of Primary Prevention, 22, 389-407.
50. Loeber, R., & Dishion, T.J. (1983). Early predictors of male delinquency: A review. Psychological Bulletin, 94, 68-99.
51. Loeber, R., Drinkwater, M., Yin, Y., Anderson, S.J., Schmidt, L.C., & Crawford, A. (2000). Stability of family interaction from ages 6 to 18. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 28, 353-369.
52. MacCallum, R.C., & Browne, M.W. (1993). The use of causal indicators in covariance structure models: Some practical issues. Psychological Bulletin, 114, 533-541.
53. Mack, K.Y., Leiber, M.J., Featherstone, R.A., & Monserud, M.A. (2007). Reassessing the family-delinquency association: Do family type, family processes, and economic factors make a difference? Journal of Criminal Justice, 35, 51-67.
54. McGue, M., Elkins, I., Walden, B., & Iacono, W.G. (2005). Perceptions of the parent-adolescent relationship: A longitudinal investigation. Developmental Psychology, 41, 971-984.
55. Meredith, W. (1993). Measurement invariance, factor analysis and factorial invariance. Psychometrika, 58, 525-543.
56. Moffitt, T.E. (1993). Adolescence-limited and life-course persistent anti-social behavior: A developmental taxonomy. Psychological Review, 100, 674-701.
57. Moffitt, T. E., Caspi, A., Rutter, M., & Silva, P. (Eds.). (2001). Sex differences in antisocial behaviour: Conduct disorder, delinquency, and violence in the Dunedin longitudinal study. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
58. Muthén, L.K., & Muthén, B.O. (2006). Mplus. Los Angeles, CA: Author.
59. Paternoster, R. (1988). Examining three-wave deterrence models: A question of temporal order and specification. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 79, 135-179.
60. Patterson, G.R., DeBaryshe, B.D., & Ramsey, E. (1989). A developmental perspective on antisocial behavior. American Psychologist, 44, 329-335.
61. Rowe, D.C., Vazsonyi, A.T., & Flannery, D.J. (1995). Sex differences in crime: Do means and within-sex variation have similar causes? Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 32, 84-100.
62. Sampson, R.J., & Laub, J.H. (1993). Crime in the making: Pathways and turning points through life. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
63. Scaramella, L.V., Conger, R.D., & Simons, R.L. (1999). Parental protective influences and gender-specific increases in adolescent internalizing and externalizing problems. Journal of Research on Adolescence, 9, 111-141.
64. Seydlitz, R. (1991). The effects of age and gender on parental control and delinquency. Youth and Society, 23, 175-201.
65. Sheehan, M.J., & Watson, M.W. (2008). Reciprocal influences between maternal discipline techniques and aggression in children and adolescents. Aggressive Behavior, 34, 245-255.
66. Sherman, L. W., Gottfredson, D. C., MacKenzie, D. L., Eck, J., Reuter, P., & Bushway, S. D. (Eds.). (1997). Preventing crime: What works, what doesn't, what's promising: A report to the United States Congress. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs.
67. Silverthorne, P., & Frick, P.J. (1999). Developmental pathways to antisocial behavior: The delayed-onset pathway for girls. Development and Psychopathology, 11, 101-126.
68. Smith, D.A., & Paternoster, R. (1987). The gender gap in theories of deviance: Issues and evidence. Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 24, 140-172.
69. Simons, R.L., Chao, W., Conger, R.D., & Elder, G.H. (2001). Quality of parenting as mediator of the effect of childhood defiance on adolescent friendship choices and delinquency: A growth curve analysis. Journal of Marriage and the Family, 63, 63-79.
70. Simons-Morton, B., Chen, R., Abroms, L., & Haynie, D.L. (2004). Latent growth curve analyses of peer and parent influences on smoking progression among early adolescents. Health Psychology, 23, 612-621.
71. Snyder, H.N., & Sickmund, M. (2006). Juvenile offenders and victims: 2006 national report. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
72. Steffensmeier, D. (2001). Female crime trends, 1960-1995. In C. M. Renzetti & L. Goodstein (Eds.), Women, crime, and criminal justice: Original feminist readings (pp. 191-211). Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury Publishing Company.
73. Thornberry, T.P. (1987). Toward an interactional theory of delinquency. Criminology, 25, 863-891.
74. Thornberry, T.P., Lizotte, A.J., Krohn, M.D., Farnworth, M., & Jang, S.J. (1991). Testing interactional theory: An examination of reciprocal causal relationships among family, school, and delinquency. The Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 82, 3-35.
75. Tucker, J.S., Martinez, J.F., Ellickson, P., & Edelen, M.O. (2008). Temporal associations of cigarette smoking with social influences, academic performance, and delinquency: A four-wave longitudinal study from ages 13 to 23. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors, 22, 1-11.
76. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2001). Youth violence: A report of the Surgeon General. Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Injury Prevention and Control; Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services; National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Mental Health.
77. Vandenberg, R.J., & Lance, C.E. (2000). A review and synthesis of the measurement invariance literature: Suggestions, practices, and recommendations for organizational research. Organizational Research Methods, 3, 4-69.
78. Wright, R., & Cullen, F.T. (2001). Parental efficacy and delinquent behavior: Do control and support matter? Criminology, 39, 677-706.