Violence in the context of overlapping parenting styles

• In Event: Intergenerational Criminology, Panel 1. Family and Intergenerational Perspectives

Abstract

The experience of parental violence is a widely recognised predictor of later delinquency. In the literature, a distinction is often made between different parenting styles (e.g. according to Baumrind authoritative, authoritarian, permissive, and neglectful). This categorisation suggests that these styles can be clearly distinguished from one another. Methodologically, these findings are mostly based on qualitative data or on the results of factor analyses.
The German criminological panel study “Crime in the modern City” (CrimoC) and its follow-up study “The intergenerational transmission of violence” (InterGen) serve as the data basis for this study. It can be shown that previous classifications based on modified version of the Conflict Tactics Scale, taking into account the response patterns across all dimensions of parenting, loses its clarity. Using latent profile analysis, for example, it can be shown that children who experience violence from their parents often also report a high level of empathic parenting practices. The results are discussed with regard to the current state of research on the consequences of violent parenting.

Authors

• Christina Beckord, ehs University of Applied Sciences for Social Work, Education and Nursing, Dresden

• Patricia John Sánchez, ehs University of Applied Sciences for Social Work, Education and Nursing, Dresden