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- Title
Father's family violence and son's delinquency: conflict tactics, bonding, and serious juvenile crime in the Mexican-American family.
- Authors
Murata JM
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify patterns in the Mexican-American family associated with delinquency. If it is possible to predict the law violations of a boy based on information about his family, it follows that interventions in the family may prevent delinquency. This research focused on family patterns amenable to early detection and subsequent intervention. From the perspective of social control theory (Hirschi, 1969), the lack of attachment to the father of the Mexican-American family, or la familia (as it is called in Spanish), may be a critical element in the development of delinquency. Because the father in la familia is often the dominant member (Cromwell & Cromwell, 1978) and an authority figure (Mirande, 1979; Tamez 1981), his use of violence was theorized to be most disruptive of the attachment of his sons to him and to authority figures in the dominant culture. The present study investigated the relationship between the father's family violence and delinquency, testing the following propositions: Proposition 1. The greater the father's violence in the family, the less the bonding of members to the family. Proposition 2. the less the bonding to the family, the greater the son's delinquency.
- Publication
Western Journal of Nursing Research, 1990, Vol 12, Issue 1, p60
- ISSN
0193-9459
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1177/019394599001200105