 Differences between risk factors for truancy and delinquency in Dutch adolescentsLaurine B. van der Woude, Trudy van der Stouwe and Geert Jan J.M. Stams Children and Youth Services Review, 2017, vol. 73, issue C, 9-14 Abstract: The present study examined differences in risk factors for truancy and delinquency. Research questions were: (1) Which risk factors are significantly different between truants and delinquents? (2) Which risk factors make the strongest distinction between truancy and delinquency? Participants were Dutch adolescents (N=365) who received a penal sanction in the Netherlands. 83% (n=304) of them had violated the penal law, and 17% (n=62) received the penalty for truancy. Differences in risk factors for truancy and delinquency were found for age and parental punishment. Binary logistic regression showed that only parental punishment retained its predictive effects when controlling for other differences. Truants experienced more parental punishment than delinquent adolescents. The present study shows that addressing dysfunctional home circumstances could be more important for truants, indicating that existing interventions do not differentiate enough between truants and delinquents. Keywords: Risk factors; Truancy; Delinquency; Adolescent delinquents; Parental punishment (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:cysrev:v:73:y:2017:i:c:p:9-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.childyouth.2016.11.028 Access Statistics for this article Children and Youth Services Review is currently edited by Duncan Lindsey More articles in Children and Youth Services Review from Elsevier |
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