When love hurts: assessing the intersectionality of ethnicity, socio-economic status, parental connectedness, child abuse, and gender attitudes in juvenile violent delinquency.
Researchers have not yet reached agreement about the validity of several competing explanations that seek to explain ethnic differences in juvenile violent offending. Ethnicity cannot solely explain why boys with an ethnic minority background commit more (violent) crimes. By assessing the intersectionality of structural, cultural and individual considerations, both the independent effects as well as the interplay between different factors can be examined. This study shows that aforementioned factors cumulatively play a role in severe violent offending, with parental connectedness and child abuse having the strongest associations. However, since most variables interact and ethnicity is associated with those specific factors, a conclusion to be drawn is that ethnicity may be relevant as an additional variable predicting severe violent offending although indirectly.
INTERVICT, Tilburg Law School, The Netherlands.
Esmah
E
Lahlah
Kim M E
KM
Lens
Stefan
S
Bogaerts
Leontien M
LM
van der Knaap
D000293:Adolescent; D002649:Child Abuse / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D009426:Netherlands; D010287:Parent-Child Relations / Q000208:ethnology*; D012923:Social Class; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014754:Violence / Q000208:ethnology*
Child abuse; Ethnicity; Gender attitudes; Intersectionality; Juvenile violent delinquency; Parental connectedness; Socio-economic status