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7 Crime & Just. 29 (1986)
Family Factors as Correlates and Predictors of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency

handle is hein.journals/cjrr7 and id is 39 raw text is: Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber Family Factors as Correlates and Predictors of Juvenile Conduct Problems and Delinquency ABSTRACT A meta-analysis was performed of concurrent and longitudinal studies on the relation of family factors to juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Analyses of longitudinal data show that socialization variables, such as lack of parental supervision, parental rejection, and parent-child involvement, are among the most powerful predictors of juvenile conduct problems and delinquency. Medium-strength predictors include background variables such as parents' marital relations and parental criminality. Weaker predictors are lack of parental discipline, parental health, and parental absence. The effect of these factors seems to be about the same for boys and for girls. Analyses of concurrent studies comparing delinquents with nondelinquents, and aggressive children with nonaggressive children, largely parallel these findings. Data from concurrent normal samples, however, show less importance for parental child socialization practices and relatively more importance for the child's rejection of the parent and the parent's rejection of the child. A small proportion of families produces a disproportionate number of delinquents. The presence of one child with delinquency, aggression, or covert conduct problems increases the probability that other children in the family will exhibit those behaviors. Deficiencies in parenting skills are Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber are Assistant Professors at the University of Pittsburgh, School of Medicine, Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic. The authors are greatly indebted to Linette Postell, Danette Waller, and Pat Wilson for their assis- tance. Michael Tonry and Celia Eatman transformed our Anglo-Dutch into Anglo- American. David P. Farrington, Ted Jacob, Chris Thomas, and James Q. Wilson pro- vided valuable comments. © 1986 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved. 0-226-80801-7/860007-0006$0 1.00

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