Juvenile Crime | Poor Parenting Contributes to Gang-Related Juvenile Crime

It is of value to analyze the causal factors that produce the sociopathic gangster. The following analysis reveals some of the family and parental socialization factors that help to create the gangster’s sociopathic personality.

Family Impacts

An adequate social self develops from a consistent pattern of interaction with rational adult parents in a normative family socialization process. Effective adult role models, especially two parents, help a youth learn social feelings of love, compassion, and sympathy. This concept of adequate self-emergence through...

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