Parental Low Self-Control, Parental Socialization, Young Adult Low Self-Control, and Offending: A Retrospective Study

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 1183-1199

  Meldrum, Ryan C ^a   Young, Jacob T N ^b   Lehmann, Peter S ^c  

^a FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

offending; parental self control; parental socialization; self control theory; SEM; young adult self control

Indexed keywords

EID: 84942328605     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854815595662     Document Type: Article

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