The Moderation Effects of Parental Efficacy and Social Disorganization on the Violent Victimization-Delinquency Link

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Abstract

The present study examined the moderating effects of parental efficacy and neighborhood social disorganization on the relationship between adolescents’ experience of violent victimization and delinquency involvement. Analyses of the ADD health public use data revealed that parental efficacy has a significant interaction effect with youths’ violent victimization experience on delinquency. Also, neighborhood social disorganization significantly interacts with violent victimization to produce delinquency. The results showed that, although experience of violent victimization produces higher involvement in violent delinquency, the effects vary depending on the level of parental efficacy at home and/or neighborhood social disorganization. The findings are discussed from general strain and social control perspectives.

Author

• Young S. Kim, Eastern Michigan University