Change in Family Structure and Rates of Violent Juvenile Delinquency

This paper addresses the question: Have the changes in family structure in the U.S. become a catalyst for juvenile delinquency? For this research, I use existing statistics for my three independent variables: divorce rates, rate of working mothers with children under age 18, percent female-headed h...

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Main Author: Fry, Jeannie A.
Other Authors: Sociology
Format: Others
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/33004
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-05192010-095240/