Family Models of Sibling Delinquency: Testing a Differential Social Control Theory

兄弟姐妹犯罪的家庭模型：检验差别社会控制理论

• 批准号: 8911211
• 负责人: Ross Matsueda
• 金额: $ 4万
• 依托单位: University of Wisconsin-Madison
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1989
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1989-09-01 至 1991-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=8911211&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Family; Models; Sibling; Delinquency; Testing

It would come as no surprise in the folklore of modern industrial society that 'partners in crime' were especially likely to be 'brothers in crime', or more generally siblings or members of the same family. Whether that is supported by careful analysis of appropriate data, or more precisely how and why this is true -- is the subject of this research project. Little is actually known in general about the mechanisms by which siblings come to resemble each other in delinquent behavior or about the dynamics of family processes that may lead to sibling resemblance. This will be the first large scale research into these mechanisms. The project will undertake a state-of-the-art analyses of a sample of 470 sibling pairs. The study will also take advantage of data from the National Youth Survey, perhaps the best dataset collected on the social-psychological determinants of delinquency. Under study will be the relative effects on a sibling's delinquent behavior (if any) of 1) parents' positive or negative concepts of each sibling (seen as getting along well with people or as a rule-breaker, for example), 2) the sibling's own concepts of themselves as viewed by significant others' (teachers', friends', the other sibling), 3) parental delinquent behaviors and 4) other sibling's delinquent behavior. The effects of the gender composition (both male, both female or mixed) of the sibling pair will also be studied. This research, undertaken by a promising young criminologist, will also break ground in the general study of sibling models and of the family 'inheritance' of other types of behaviors.

在现代工业社会的民间传说中，“犯罪伙伴”尤其可能是“犯罪兄弟”，或者更一般地说是兄弟姐妹或同一家庭的成员，这一点也就不足为奇了。 这个研究项目的主题是是否通过对适当数据的仔细分析来支持这一点，或者更准确地说，这是如何以及为何如此。实际上，人们对兄弟姐妹在犯罪行为上变得相似的机制或可能导致兄弟姐妹相似的家庭过程的动态知之甚少。 这将是对这些机制的首次大规模研究。该项目将对 470 对兄弟姐妹样本进行最先进的分析。该研究还将利用全国青少年调查的数据，这可能是关于犯罪的社会心理决定因素收集的最佳数据集。正在研究的将是以下因素对兄弟姐妹的犯罪行为（如果有）的相对影响：1）父母对每个兄弟姐妹的积极或消极观念（例如，被视为与人相处融洽或破坏规则），2）兄弟姐妹在重要他人（老师，朋友，另一个兄弟姐妹）眼中对自己的看法，3）父母的犯罪行为和4）其他兄弟姐妹的犯罪行为。还将研究兄弟姐妹的性别构成（男性、女性或混合）的影响。这项研究由一位有前途的年轻犯罪学家进行，也将在兄弟姐妹模型和其他类型行为的家庭“遗传”的一般研究中取得突破。