Citation

Juby H, Farrington DP. Br. J. Criminol. 2001; 41(1): 22-40.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2001, Centre for Crime and Justice Studies, Publisher Oxford University Press)

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Abstract

The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development is a prospective longitudinal survey of 411 South London males from age 8 to age 46. Delinquency rates were higher among 75 boys who were living in permanently disrupted families on their fifteenth birthday, compared to boys living in intact families. Results were very similar whether juvenile convictions, juvenile self-reported delinquency or adult convictions were studied. Delinquency rates were similar in disrupted families and in intact high conflict families. Boys who lost their mothers were more likely to be delinquent than boys who lost their fathers, and disruptions caused by parental disharmony were more damaging than disruptions caused by parental death. Boys from disrupted families who continued living with their mothers had similar delinquency rates to boys from intact harmonious families. These results are more concordant with life course theories rather than with trauma theories or selection theories of the effects of family disruption. (Abstract Adapted from Source: British Journal of Criminology, 2001. Copyright © 2001 by Oxford University Press)

England
Foreign Countries
Child Male
Child Delinquency
Child Crime
Child Offender
Juvenile Male
Juvenile Crime
Juvenile Delinquency
Juvenile Offender
Adult Offender
Adult Crime
Adult Male
Male Offender
Male Crime
Male Delinquency
Delinquency Causes
Delinquency Risk Factors
Family Background
Family Environment
Family Structure
Family Risk Factors
Parent Conflict
Parent Relations
Single Parent Family
Late Adolescence
Early Adolescence
Life Course
Longitudinal Studies
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