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Family dynamics, adolescent delinquency, and adult criminality. 1992

M Le Blanc

School of Psycho-Education, Research Group on Children's Maladjustment, University of Montreal.

Family and offending is probably the theme most researched in criminology. A comprehensive array of characteristics of family life have been linked to offending since the beginning of this century. This theme has been approached from two directions: a bivariable point of view, in which one characteristic of the family is related to a measure of offending, and a multivariate point of view, in which some family characteristics are used to explain offending. The literature is dominated by bivariable studies and although there are a few multivariate studies no specific theoretical perspective is proposed. In this paper we choose a control theory perspective and a comprehensive set of family variables to answer the following question: Can the explanation of offending be improved by a dynamic system family control theory? Additionally, the literature is principally focused on adolescent delinquency; in consequence we will study the following question: Are the family characteristics that explain most efficiently juvenile delinquency the same ones for the explanation of adult criminality?

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007604	Juvenile Delinquency	The antisocial acts of children or persons under age which are illegal or lawfully interpreted as constituting delinquency.	Delinquency, Juvenile
D008297	Male		Males
D009769	Object Attachment	Emotional attachment to someone or something in the environment.	Bonding (Psychology),Bonds, Emotional,Emotional Bonds,Object Relations,Symbiotic Relations (Psychology),Bonding, Psychological,Object Relationship,Psychological Bonding,Attachment, Object,Attachments, Object,Bond, Emotional,Bondings (Psychology),Emotional Bond,Object Attachments,Object Relation,Object Relationships,Relation, Object,Relation, Symbiotic (Psychology),Relations, Object,Relations, Symbiotic (Psychology),Relationship, Object,Relationships, Object,Symbiotic Relation (Psychology)
D010553	Personality Development	Growth of habitual patterns of behavior in childhood and adolescence.	Development, Personality
D003417	Criminal Psychology	The branch of psychology which investigates the psychology of crime with particular reference to the personality factors of the criminal.	Psychology, Criminal
D005190	Family	A social group consisting of parents or parent substitutes and children.	Family Life Cycles,Family Members,Family Life Cycle,Family Research,Filiation,Kinship Networks,Relatives,Families,Family Member,Kinship Network,Life Cycle, Family,Life Cycles, Family,Network, Kinship,Networks, Kinship,Research, Family
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293	Adolescent	A person 13 to 18 years of age.	Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000328	Adult	A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available.	Adults