Vidal Sarah, Woolard Jennifer
Division of Prevention and Community Research, Department of Psychiatry, Yale University School of Medicine, 389 Whitney Ave., New Haven, CT, 06511, USA.
Department of Psychology, Georgetown University, 306 K White Gravenor Hall, 3700 P Street NW, Washington, DC, 20057, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2017 Jul;46(7):1452-1471. doi: 10.1007/s10964-015-0368-z. Epub 2015 Oct 20.
As a community-based sanction, juvenile probation exemplifies the potential of both communities and families to make significant contributions in promoting positive changes among offending youth. Yet, surprisingly little research has explored the nature of these relationships and its association with offending. This study (1) examined the associations between youth-officer relationships, youth perceptions of parental support and knowledge, and probation non-compliance and (2) explored the role of parental support and knowledge as moderators of the association between youth-officer relationships and probation non-compliance among 110 youth supervised on probation (23 % females; 60 % African American). The findings showed that tough or punitive youth-officer relationships were associated with greater counts of technical violations, but fewer counts of delinquent offenses. Parental support was associated with fewer counts of delinquent offenses and parental knowledge was associated with fewer counts of both delinquent offenses and technical violations. These findings provide evidence to the important role of both parents and probation officers and underscore the potential benefits of parent-officer collaboration in facilitating successful interventions among offending youth.
作为一种基于社区的制裁措施，青少年缓刑体现了社区和家庭在促进犯罪青少年积极改变方面做出重大贡献的潜力。然而，令人惊讶的是，很少有研究探讨这些关系的本质及其与犯罪的关联。本研究（1）考察了青少年与缓刑官的关系、青少年对父母支持和知识的认知与缓刑违规之间的关联，以及（2）探讨了在110名接受缓刑监管的青少年（23%为女性；60%为非裔美国人）中，父母支持和知识作为青少年与缓刑官关系和缓刑违规之间关联的调节变量的作用。研究结果表明，严厉或惩罚性的青少年与缓刑官关系与更多的技术性违规次数相关，但与较少的犯罪次数相关。父母支持与较少的犯罪次数相关，父母知识与较少的犯罪次数和技术性违规次数均相关。这些发现为父母和缓刑官的重要作用提供了证据，并强调了父母与缓刑官合作在促进对犯罪青少年成功干预方面的潜在益处。
