Abstract
This article explores belief in parental deficiency as a causal factor of youth anti-social behaviour and crime. Empirical interrogation of household interview data from a UK city considers whether there is widespread support for blaming parents. Somewhat surprisingly, lower income households and those containing young people, are found to be more likely to consider parental responsibility a problem. Most notably, a tendency to blame the parents strongly associates with a perception that people in the area do not treat each other with respect.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 135-156 |
| Journal | The Howard Journal of Criminal Justice |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| Early online date | 9 Oct 2014 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - May 2015 |
Keywords
- parental responsibility
- anti social behavior
- blame
- youth offending
- juvenile delinquency
Access to Document
- LEONARDj_2014_cright_HJCJ_I blame the parents
This is the accepted version of the following article: ‘I blame the parents’: Analysing support for the deficient household social capital transmission thesis, 2014, Howard Journal of Criminal Justice, ISSN 0265-5527, DOI 10.1111/hojo.12098, which has been published in final form at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/hojo.12098/abstract.