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Title	Parenting practices and the course of pre-adolescent antisocial behaviors
CitationType	Conf/Post/Speak
Category	Conference Paper
Authors	Pevalin, J.P. & Wade, T.J.
Year	2003
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Presented	Presentation to 2003 American Society of Criminology Conference, November 18-22, Denver, Co.
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Abstract	Evidence for the early manifestation and stability of antisocial behaviors has been widely documented in the sociological, criminological, psychiatric, and psychological literature. If there is a tendency for such antisocial and disruptive traits to be stable once inculcated, it is important to identify the developmental processes in the child's social-structural and family environments that precede these behaviors. Past reviews suggest a complex relationship between socio-economic disadvantage, poor parent-child relations and children's behavior problems and delinquency. This perspective suggests a cascading of risk factors where the familial environment, specifically parenting practices, mediates the social-structural background risks such as economic disadvantage. In this analysis, we contribute new population-based empirical evidence towards these debates regarding the stability and malleability of pre-adolescent antisocial behavior and the social-structural coneitions and family processes that predict change. We position our analysis within the social and family perspectives of developmental theories of antisocial behavior while having due regard for the role of uniquely individual characteristics of the child. We used data from the first three waves (1994, 1996 and 1998) of the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY) conducted by Statistics Canada. A c
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