Graduation Semester and Year
2021
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Criminology and Criminal Justice
Department
Criminology and Criminal Justice
First Advisor
Sarah El Sayed
Abstract
The relationship of child to parent, is one that has continuously been regarded as an impactful and important one. Parents are often held responsible for the character of their child as well as being responsible for their actions. Whether or not the parental relationship plays a part in an adolescent's re-arrest is what this paper aims to find, specifically looking at parental temperament. In order to lower the rate of rearrests it is important to unpack the factors that contribute to recidivism and where it may begin. This paper examines an adolescent’s rate of rearrest and analyzes if parental temperament plays a part, if at all, in whether or not an adolescent reoffends. This paper helps to add insight on parental temperament specifically paternal hostility, as the research done in this paper found significance in an adolescent’s rate of re-arrest and levels of paternal hostility.
Keywords
Adolescent, Re-arrest, Parental temperament
Disciplines
Criminology and Criminal Justice | Legal Studies | Social and Behavioral Sciences
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Jackson, Lina Maria, "An Examination of Parental Temperament and Rearrest Among a Sample of Serious Adolescent Offenders" (2021). Criminology & Criminal Justice Theses. 105.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/crcj_theses/105
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington