NCJ Number
180030
Journal
International Journal of Comparative and Applied Criminal Justice Volume: 23 Issue: 2 Dated: Fall 1999 Pages: 257-266
Date Published
1999
Length
10 pages
Annotation
This paper examines some of the correlates of antisocial behaviors and delinquency among Filipino youth.
Abstract
The article specifically examines the salience of peer-associations, family-relations and legal beliefs as predictors of antisocial behaviors among grade school and high school students in a city in the Southern Philippines. Peer-associations, family-relations and legal beliefs as well as gender were significant predictors of antisocial behaviors, but their saliency was not consistent across levels of behavior seriousness. Family-relations were significant predictors of minor and medium forms of antisocial behaviors, while legal beliefs and peer-association were significant predictors of medium to serious forms. Only two measures were salient across levels of seriousness--respondents' sex and the time they spent with friends--and even those differed in their effect sizes across seriousness levels. More study is needed to understand and explain the applicability of Western-based delinquency models in different cultural contexts. Tables, notes, references