Parental Management on Juvenile Delinquency through Low Self-control And Misperception

ABSTRACT

Delinquent behaviors among juveniles have been problematic in South Korea. More specifically, the recent rate of juvenile crimes has increased. Despite efforts to find causes of juvenile delinquency, it has remained an unresolved social problem in South Korea. Concerning these issues, this study applies Gottfredson and Hirschi’s low self-control and Akers’s definitions to the relationship between parenting and juvenile delinquency. This study used a Korean data set from the International Self-Report Delinquency 3 Study (n = 1,469). Through Structural Equation Modeling, this study found that low self-control and misperception about delinquency fully mediated the relationship between parental management and juvenile delinquency. Further, low self-control was statistically related to misperceptions about deviant behaviors. Overall, findings revealed that parenting played a critical role in demonstrating the relationship between low self-control, misperception, and juvenile delinquency. Therefore, the integrated model would provide a potential solution for juvenile delinquency in South Korea.

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Funding

This work was supported by the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Korea and the National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2015SIA5A8017327].

Notes on contributors

Hyunin Baek

Hyunin Baek is currently an assistant professor at the Department of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University of Louisville. His research interests include internet deviance, juvenile and adult deviance, police officer’s organizational commitment and competency, confidence in the police, fear of crime, bullying victimization and perpetration, and testing criminological theories. His most recent publications appear or are forthcoming in Policing: An International Journal, Substance Use & Misuse, Police Quarterly, Substance Use & Misuse, Journal of School Violence, Deviant Behavior, and International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice.

Carlos E. Posadas

Dae-Hoon Kwak is an associate professor in the School of Integrated National Security at Chungnam National University in South Korea. He received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from Michigan State University. His research interests include Communities and Crime, Comparative Criminal Justice/Criminology, Policing, Sentencing, and Advanced Statistics. He is currently working on the implementation of International Classification of Crime for Statistical Purposes (ICCS) in S. Korea. His recent publications appear in the Journal of Criminal Justice, Journal of Contemporary Criminal Justice, International Journal of Offender Therapy & Comparative Criminology, Violence and Victims, and Policing: An International Journal of Police Strategies & Management.

Dae-Hoon Kwak

Carlos E. Posadas is an associate professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at New Mexico State University. His research interests include immigration, U.S.-Mexico border issues, juvenile justice and delinquency, and disproportionate minority contact. Some of his previous research publications have appeared in the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, Journal of Gang Research, Race and Justice, and the Journal of Latinos and Education.