Violence as a Consequence of Parenting (From Trends, Risks, and Interventions in Lethal Violence: Proceedings of the Third Annual Spring Symposium of the Homicide Research Working Group, P 183-190, 1995, Carolyn Block and Richard Block, eds.)

• NCJ Number: 159902
• Author(s): A Goetting
• Date Published: 1995
• Length: 8 pages
• Sponsoring Agency: Office of Justice Programs (OJP)
• Sale Source: National Institute of Justice/NCJRS
• Publication Type: Research (Theoretical)
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS. NIJ Research Report, See NCJ-154254 for complete document.

Annotation

This paper summarizes the available research linking parental style to a child's use of violence as a juvenile and as an adult.

Abstract

The most salient pattern to emerge from the literature is that interaction indicators seem to be more strongly associated with child conduct problems, including violence, than are structural indicators. Most of the research on the role that parenting plays in fomenting a child's violence has focused on parenting factors as a cause of delinquency, and a good part of that emphasizes the apparent relationship between child maltreatment and youth violence. However, empirical causal connections between parenting and violent behavior remains ambiguous due to the complex and multidimensional nature of both violent behavior and parenting, the difficulties of comparing data from different sources, and the fact that diverse measures of parenting demonstrate empirical relationships of different types. 17 references