TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2002//
TI  - Gender, Self-Control, and Informal Social Control in Adolescence: A Test of Three Models of the Continuity of Delinquent Behavior
JO  - Youth and society
A1  - Mason, W. Alex
A1  - Windle, Michael
SP  - 479
EP  - 514
VL  - 33
IS  - 4
N2  - Three alternative theories of the continuity of delinquent behavior throughout childhood and into adolescence were evaluated with a series of nested structural equation models in a sample of 840 middle adolescents. Longitudinal analyses revealed that childhood behavior problems were related directly and indirectly (through age-graded social control variables) to adolescent delinquency among boys. Childhood behavior problems had unmediated effects on girls' major delinquency but were only indirectly related to girls' minor delinquency. (Abstract Adapted from Source: Youth and Society, 2002. Copyright © 2002 by SAGE Publications)  Child Offender Child Delinquency Juvenile Offender Juvenile Delinquency Juvenile Self-Control Child Self-Control Child Female Child Male Male Offender Male Delinquency Female Offender Female Delinquency Juvenile Female Juvenile Male Gender Differences Social Control Child Behavior Child Problem Behavior Behavior Effects Female Behavior Juvenile Behavior Delinquency Causes 09-02<p />
LA  - en
SN  - 0044-118X
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -