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

在现代工业社会的民间传说中，“犯罪伙伴”特别可能是“犯罪兄弟”，或者更普遍的是兄弟姐妹或同一家庭的成员，这一点也就不足为奇了。这是否得到了对适当数据的仔细分析的支持，或者更准确地说，这是如何以及为什么会这样--是这项研究项目的主题。实际上，关于兄弟姐妹在犯罪行为中彼此相似的机制，或者可能导致兄弟姐妹相似的家庭过程的动态，人们实际上知之甚少。这将是对这些机制的首次大规模研究。该项目将对470对兄弟姐妹进行最先进的分析。这项研究还将利用全国青年调查的数据，这可能是关于犯罪的社会心理决定因素收集的最好的数据集。正在研究的将是1)父母对每个兄弟姐妹的积极或消极的观念(例如，被视为与人相处良好或被视为违规者)对兄弟姐妹的违法行为(如果有的话)的相对影响，2)兄弟姐妹自己被重要的其他人(老师、朋友的)视为自己的观念，3)父母的违法行为；4)其他兄弟姐妹的违法行为。还将研究兄弟姐妹的性别构成(男性、女性或混合)的影响。这项由一位有前途的年轻犯罪学家进行的研究，也将在兄弟姐妹模式和其他类型行为的家庭“遗传”的一般研究中取得突破。

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.