RT Article
T1 Parental Hostility as a Moderator of the Criminogenic Effect of Parental Criminal Justice Contact Among Youth Adjudicated of Serious Offenses
JF Criminal justice and behavior
VO 52
IS 9
SP 1344
OP 1365
A1 Chlebuch, Natasha
A1 Witwer, Amanda
A1 Cavanagh, Caitlin
A2 Witwer, Amanda
A2 Cavanagh, Caitlin
LA English
YR 2025
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1932756973
AB Evidence suggests that having justice-involved parents increases the odds of juvenile offending, including serious delinquency. Recent research has shifted focus to precipitating risk/protective factors that may moderate the link between parental offending and delinquency, including the parent−adolescent relationship. This study aimed to investigate whether the affective relationship with a parent attenuates the effect of criminogenic transmission, as demonstrated by fewer types of offending behaviors among a sample of youth adjudicated of serious offenses whose parents have had prior criminal justice contact. A significant interaction between paternal and maternal justice involvement and maternal and paternal hostility was found for males, but not for females, such that the criminogenic effect of parental justice involvement is slightly weakened for justice-involved males whose relationship with their mother and father is characterized by relatively high rates of hostility.
K1 Juvenile offending
K1 parental criminal justice contact
K1 parental warmth
K1 parental hostility
DO 10.1177/00938548251342787