TY - JOUR
T1 - 'I blame the parents'
T2 - Analysing popular support for the deficient household social capital transmission thesis
AU - Collins, Alan
AU - Cox, Joe
AU - Leonard, Alan
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2014 The Howard League and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
PY - 2015/5/1
Y1 - 2015/5/1
N2 - This article explores belief in parental deficiency as a causal factor of youth anti-social behaviour and crime. Empirical interrogation of household interview data from a UK city considers whether there is widespread support for blaming parents. Somewhat surprisingly, lower-income households and those containing young people, are found to be more likely to consider parental responsibility a problem. Most notably, a tendency to blame the parents strongly associates with a perception that people in the area do not treat each other with respect.
AB - This article explores belief in parental deficiency as a causal factor of youth anti-social behaviour and crime. Empirical interrogation of household interview data from a UK city considers whether there is widespread support for blaming parents. Somewhat surprisingly, lower-income households and those containing young people, are found to be more likely to consider parental responsibility a problem. Most notably, a tendency to blame the parents strongly associates with a perception that people in the area do not treat each other with respect.
KW - Anti-social behaviour (ASB)
KW - Blame
KW - Juvenile delinquency
KW - Parental responsibility
KW - Youth offending
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84927699360&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/hojo.12098
DO - 10.1111/hojo.12098
M3 - Journal Article
AN - SCOPUS:84927699360
SN - 0265-5527
VL - 54
SP - 135
EP - 156
JO - Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
JF - Howard Journal of Criminal Justice
IS - 2
ER -
