The Relation between Abuse and Violent Delinquency: The Conversion of Shame to Blame in Juvenile Offenders

Autor/inn/en	Gold, Jason; Sullivan, Margaret Wolan; Lewis, Michael
Titel	The Relation between Abuse and Violent Delinquency: The Conversion of Shame to Blame in Juvenile Offenders
Quelle	In: Child Abuse & Neglect: The International Journal, 35 (2011) 7, S.459-467 (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0145-2134
DOI	10.1016/j.chiabu.2011.02.007
Schlagwörter	Delinquency; Child Rearing; Juvenile Justice; Child Abuse; Correlation; Parent Child Relationship; Violence; Cognitive Processes; Psychological Patterns; Institutionalized Persons; Trauma; Pathology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Kriminalität; Kindererziehung; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Abuse of children; Abuse; Child; Children; Kindesmissbrauch; Missbrauch; Kind; Kinder; Korrelation; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Gewalt; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Pathologie
Abstract	Objective: While the relationship between abusive parenting and violent delinquency has been well established, the cognitive and emotional processes by which this occurs remain relatively unidentified. The objective of this work is to apply a conceptual model linking abusive parenting to the conversion of shame into blaming others and therefore to violent delinquency. Methods: A retrospective study of 112 adolescents (90 male; 22 female; ages 12-19 years; M=15.6; SD=1.4) who were incarcerated in a juvenile detention facility pending criminal charges, completed measures of exposure to abusive and nonabusive discipline, expressed and converted shame, and violent delinquency. Results: Findings tend to confirm the conceptual model. Subjects who converted shame (i.e., low expressed shame, high blaming others) tended to have more exposure to abusive parenting and showed more violent delinquent behavior than their peers who showed expressed shame. Subjects who showed expressed shame (i.e., high expressed shame, low blaming others) showed less violent delinquency than those who showed converted shame. Conclusions: Abusive parenting impacts delinquency directly and indirectly through the effects of shame that is converted. Abusive parenting leads to the conversion of shame to blaming others, which in turn leads to violent delinquent behavior. Practice implications: For juvenile offenders, the conversion of shame into blaming others appears to contribute to pathological outcomes in relation to trauma. Translation of this work into clinical practice is recommended. (Contains 1 figure and 3 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10