Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA.
Soc Sci Res. 2020 Feb;86:102376. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2019.102376. Epub 2019 Oct 18.
Youth's social bonds' with conventional social institutions (e.g., family and school) and parental management of youth's leisure time represent two dimensions of suppressants against juvenile delinquency. Using Multivariate regression, this paper assesses these two dimensions of factors simultaneously on youth's aggressive and non-aggressive delinquency, and examines if their effects are gender sensitive. Findings suggest that girls have significantly lower involvement in both aggressive and non-aggressive delinquency than boys. However, girls are disproportionately involved in non-aggressive delinquency. Parental monitoring protects boys and girls distinctively on aggressive delinquency; this factor has a more pronounced inhibitory effect on girls' aggressive behavior. This study elucidates that there is a gendered pattern in adolescent delinquency, and that gender moderates the effect of some protective factor.
青少年与传统社会机构（如家庭和学校）的社会联系以及父母对青少年闲暇时间的管理，代表了抑制青少年犯罪的两个维度。本文采用多元回归方法，同时评估这两个维度的因素对青少年攻击性和非攻击性犯罪的影响，并检验它们的影响是否存在性别差异。研究结果表明，女孩在攻击性和非攻击性犯罪中的参与程度明显低于男孩。然而，女孩却不成比例地卷入非攻击性犯罪。父母监督对男孩和女孩的攻击性犯罪有明显的保护作用；这一因素对女孩的攻击行为有更显著的抑制作用。本研究表明，青少年犯罪存在性别模式，一些保护因素的作用受到性别因素的调节。
