The Cycle of Deviant Behavior (eBook)

Investigating Intergenerational Parallelism

Howard B. Kaplan, Glen C. Tolle Jr. (Autoren)

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2006 | 2006
XIII, 237 Seiten
Springer US (Verlag)
978-0-387-32644-3 (ISBN)

Infos

To conduct this study on criminal and antisocial behavior, the authors devoted years to collecting data from a large community sample of first-generation subjects. Data were garnered throughout their early adolescence, twenties, and thirties as well as from these first-generation subjects' biological children during their own early adolescence. The results of these studies have profound implications for future research and methodology on deviant behavior.

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This volume is about understanding the relationship between deviance and selected correlates of deviance in one generation and deviance and its selected correlates in the next generation. By examining the significance of these constructs in the parental generation as part of the explanation for the same constructs in the child's generation, we contribute to an und- standing of the phenomena. This contribution, however, is quite limited in the sense that we are examining in essence bivariate relationships-the association between first-generation and second-generation phenomena- while ignoring all of the other influences on the second-generation p- nomena that do not stem from or account for the intergenerational relationship. Nevertheless, the study of intergenerational parallelism of deviance and its correlates justifiably has excited attention and resulted in a vo- minous literature greater than might have been expected for any parti- lar bivariate relationships because of the mystique surrounding ideas-cycle of violence, reproduction of culture, to name but a few-that are evoked by consideration of the association between such phenomena in one generation and the same phenomena in a successive generation.

Inhalt

Title Page 4
Copyright Page 5
Preface 7
Acknowledgments 10
Table of Contents 11
Part I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICALISSUES IN THE STUDY OFINTERGENERATIONAL PARALLELISM OFDEVIANCE 12
1 Toward an Understanding ofIntergenerational Parallelism ofDeviance 15
Defining Deviance and Intergenerational Parallelism 16
The Nature of Deviance 16
Intergenerational Parallelism 21
Guiding Theoretical Framework 25
Diversity of Explanatory Frameworks 25
An Integrative Theory of Deviant Behavior 28
The Integrative Theory and Other Deviance Theories 39
Applying an Integrative Theory 47
2 Method 51
Methodological Limitations of Current Research 51
Comparable Developmental Stages 52
Prospective Longitudinal Studies 54
Mediators, Common Antecedents, Moderators 55
Independent Sources of Data 57
A Multigeneration Prospective Study 61
Data Collection 61
Missing Data 62
Variable Construction 63
Variable Nonnormality 64
Statistical Methods and Latent Variable Model Estimation 65
Multigroup Analysis 66
Part II THE CONDITIONAL NATURE OFINTERGENERATIONAL PARALLELISM 67
3 Observing IntergenerationalParallelism in Deviance 68
Literature on Intergenerational Parallelism 68
Correlates of Deviant Behavior 68
Deviant Patterns 70
Estimates of Intergenerational Parallelism 75
Deviant Behavior 77
Disposition to Deviance 79
Negative Self-Feelings 79
Discussion 79
4 Moderators of IntergenerationalParallelism 82
Research Literature on Moderators 83
General Issues 83
Specific Intergenerational Relationships 86
Summary 98
Estimating Moderators of Intergenerational Parallelism 98
Deviant Behavior 99
Disposition to Deviance 107
Negative Self-Feelings 116
Part III DECOMPOSING INTERGENERATIONALPARALLELISM 134
5 Intervening Processes 136
Literature on Intervening Processes 137
Correlates of Deviant Behavior 137
Deviant Behavior 142
Structural Equation Models 149
Disposition to Deviance 157
Negative Self-Feelings 161
Summary 164
Deviant Behavior 151
6 Intergenerational Continuity ofIntragenerational Causes of DeviantBehavior and Its Correlates 166
Literature on Intergenerational Continuities ofIntragenerational Causes 167
Parenting Patterns 169
Socioeconomic Status 174
Explaining Intergenerational Parallelism of Deviance:Intergenerational Stability of Intragenerational Antecedents 178
Deviant Behavior 178
Disposition to Deviance 188
Negative Self-Feelings 196
Summary 199
Part IV RETROSPECT AND PROSPECT 201
7 Summary and Conclusions 202
Substantive Findings 202
Deviant Behavior 203
Disposition to Deviance 206
Negative Self-Feelings 210
Future Elaboration 214
Sociodemographic Controls 214
Bidirectional Effects 215
Meaning of Measurement Models 216
Genetic Influences 217
Parent Reports 218
Sociohistorical Trends 218
Range of Variables 219
Inclusive Models 221
Conclusion 221
References 223
Index 240

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Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.11.2006
• Reihe/Serie: Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series
• Reihe/Serie: Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 237 p.
• Verlagsort: Boston
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Entwicklungspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: antisocial behavior • Behavior • deviant behavior • Generation • intergenerational parallelism • Nature • social deviance
• ISBN-10: 0-387-32644-8 / 0387326448
• ISBN-13: 978-0-387-32644-3 / 9780387326443