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dc.contributor.authorJennings, Wesley G
dc.contributor.authorMaldonado-Molina, Mildred M
dc.contributor.authorPiquero, Alex R
dc.contributor.authorCanino, Glorisa
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T11:18:52Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T11:18:52Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.date.modified2011-02-17T07:35:25Z
dc.identifier.issn0047-2891
dc.identifier.doi10.1007/s10964-009-9439-3
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/36427
dc.description.abstractSeveral studies have examined the factors associated with juvenile delinquency, but this literature remains limited largely because it has not moved beyond traditional factors generally and because of the lack of research conducted on minority-especially Hispanic-youth. This study seeks to overcome these two limitations by using data from a longitudinal study of 2,491 Hispanic (Puerto Rican) youth ages 5-13 (48.5% female) socialized in two different cultural contexts, Bronx, New York and San Juan, Puerto Rico, in an effort to examine the relationship between parental suicidality and offspring delinquency. Results indicate that while traditional risk/protective factors and parental mental health issues relate to delinquency in expected ways, youths whose parents attempted suicide engaged in more frequent and varied delinquency over time. Implications for theory and future research are addressed.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherSpringer Science + Business Media
dc.publisher.placeBerlin, Germany
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom315
dc.relation.ispartofpageto325
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Youth and Adolescence
dc.relation.ispartofvolume39
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchSpecialist studies in education
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCriminological theories
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode3904
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode440205
dc.titleParental Suicidality as a Risk Factor for Delinquency Among Hispanic Youth
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.date.issued2010
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorPiquero, Alex R.


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