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

在现代的民间传说中， 在工业社会中，“犯罪伙伴”尤其是 可能是“犯罪兄弟”，或者更一般的兄弟姐妹， 同一个家庭的成员。 是否支持 仔细分析适当的数据，或者更确切地说， 为什么这是真的--是这项研究的主题 项目实际上，人们对 兄弟姐妹之间相似的机制， 犯罪行为或家庭过程的动态 可能会导致兄弟姐妹相似。 这将是第一 对这些机制进行大规模研究。该项目将 对470个样本进行最先进的分析， 兄弟姐妹该研究还将利用来自 全国青年调查，也许是最好的数据集， 收集的社会心理决定因素， 犯罪。正在研究的将是对一个 兄弟姐妹的犯罪行为（如果有的话）1）父母的 每个兄弟姐妹的积极或消极概念（被视为 与人沿着融洽或违反规则，因为 2）兄弟姐妹自己的概念， 被重要的其他人（老师，朋友，其他人）看到 兄弟姐妹），3）父母违法行为和4）其他 兄弟姐妹的不良行为性别的影响 兄弟姐妹的组成（男性，女性或混合） 也将研究。这项研究由一名 有前途的年轻犯罪学家，也将破土动工， 兄弟姐妹模型和家庭的一般研究 其他类型行为的“继承”。

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.