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Chan, Heng Choon Oliver; Chui, Wing Hong – Child & Youth Care Forum, 2015
Background: Little is known about the level of social bond elements and their effects on delinquency among nonadjudicated (traditional low and at-risk school-aged) and adjudicated Chinese male adolescents. Objective: Using a large adolescent sample (N = 1,177) from Hong Kong and Macau, this study aims to distinguish the level of social bond…
Descriptors: Adolescent Attitudes, Males, Asians, At Risk Students
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Bao, Wan-Ning; Haas, Ain; Chen, Xiaojin; Pi, Yijun – Youth & Society, 2014
In Agnew's general strain theory, repeated strains can generate crime and delinquency by reducing social control and fostering social learning of crime. Using a sample of 615 middle-and high-school students in China, this study examines how social control and social learning variables mediate the effect of repeated strains in school and at home on…
Descriptors: Crime, Delinquency, Social Theories, Middle School Students