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Perceived Parental Care and Supervision

Relations With Cognitive Representations of Future Offending in a Sample of Young Offenders

University of Stirling, UK and University of the Aegean, Greece

This article focuses on the relations of two dimensions of perceived child-rearing practices, care and protection, as measured by the Parental Bonding Instrument and on cognitive representations of future offending in a sample of 152 young offenders. The relations of two different models, predictive of juvenile delinquency, are explored. Parental influences are thought to represent distal factors affecting juvenile delinquency, whereas cognitive representations, formulating the decisions of young offenders, are proximally related with juvenile delinquency. The focus of the research is the young offenders'intentions to reoffend, and it was found that intentions to reoffend in the future were predicted by attitudes toward offending and perceived behavioural control of future offending, whereas parental variables were redundant in predicting behavioural intentions of reoffending. Any effects of parental variables on behavioural intentions were mediated by the young offenders' attitudes toward offending.

Key Words: child rearing • practices • delinquency • adolescence • cognitive representations • offending

International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, Vol. 50, No. 2, 187-203 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/0306624X05278517


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