The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science · 1949 · 21 citations · 0 references
Youth LawFamily InvolvementLawCriminal LawSocial SciencesPsychologyFamily SystemsFamily InteractionFamily LifeYouth JusticeFamily RelationshipsChild Well-beingChild AbuseNormal FunctionsCriminal JusticeChild DevelopmentJuvenile DelinquencySociologyFamily PsychologyFamily DynamicParental Control
in the normal functions of family life. The loss of parental control represented in the formal breach of the law is usually the culmination of a period of heightened tensions arising from severe conflict over patterns of rearing-disagreement over duties, restrictions and limitations, standards of education and training, selection of associations and places of association, and so forthculminating in a breakdown of emotional attachment between parent and delinquent child, and leading often to a break in essential communication of