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Gender, Self-control, and Informal Social Control in Adolescence

A Test of Three Models of the Continuity of Delinquent Behavior

W. ALEX MASON

University of Washington wamason{at}u.washington.edu

MICHAEL WINDLE

University of Alabama at Birmingham

Three alternative theories of the continuity of delinquent behavior throughout childhood and into adolescence were evaluated with a series of nested structural equation models in a sample of 840 middle adolescents. Longitudinal analyses revealed that childhood behavior problems were related directly and indirectly (through age-graded social control variables) to adolescent delinquency among boys. Childhood behavior problems had unmediated effects on girls' major delinquency but were only indirectly related to girls' minor delinquency.

Youth & Society, Vol. 33, No. 4, 479-514 (2002)
DOI: 10.1177/0044118X02033004001
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