Department of Sociology, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada N9B 3P4.
Int J Law Psychiatry. 2009 Nov-Dec;32(6):392-9. doi: 10.1016/j.ijlp.2009.09.009. Epub 2009 Oct 3.
This paper examines the relevance to delinquency of social capital that is directly embedded in the relationships that teenagers have with peers, parents, and those in positions of authority and those indirect social capital that teenagers may benefit due their parents' relations with their school or friends. The analysis employs data from the Canadian National Survey of Children. The study shows that personality traits are the most important predictors of property offences. Nevertheless, we also show the importance of social relationships embedded directly in individuals themselves and these are more important than those embedded indirectly through their family. Well connected youth with good friends and quality teachers commit significantly less property offences when controlling for personality traits and parents' social capital.
本文考察了青少年与同龄人、父母以及权威人士之间直接存在的关系所带来的社会资本与青少年可能因父母与学校或朋友的关系而获得的间接社会资本对犯罪行为的相关性。该分析采用了来自加拿大全国儿童调查的数据。研究表明,人格特质是财产犯罪的最重要预测因素。然而,我们也表明了直接存在于个人自身的社会关系的重要性,这些关系比通过家庭间接存在的关系更为重要。在控制人格特质和父母的社会资本的情况下,与朋友和优秀教师关系良好的青少年犯罪行为显著较少。