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JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE
Volume 56, Issue -, Pages 20-28Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2017.09.009
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Child abuse; Delinquency; Self-control; General strain theory; Add health
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Purpose: This study examined the independent effects of child abuse on self-control and delinquency and explored whether self-control mediates the child abuse-delinquency relationship. Methods: We employed path modeling in Mplus to examine the relationship between child abuse, self-control, and delinquency using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (Add Health). Results: Net of theoretically important controls, child abuse has direct and indirect effects on delinquency, and the relationship is partially explained by low self-control. Conclusions: Child abuse has an independent influence on levels of self-control, supporting a proposition made by general strain theory, and self-control partially mediates the oft-observed relationship between child abuse and delinquency.
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