Study Questions Number 14
Discussion/Writing Assignment

Moeller Chapter 5. Family factors. Pages 111-125.

Date: 10-26-04
Psychology/Criminal Justice 317

Hal S. Bertilson, Ph.D.
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1. On the basis of his past research, Patterson hypothesizes what four (4) specific child management problems faced by parents of highly aggressive children? (106)
2. Parents of problem children tend to give beta commands rather than alpha commands. What is meant by the terms beta and alpha commands? (107)
3. How important is parental supervision and monitoring as a predictor of children's later aggressiveness and delinquency? Other research indicates what three (3) reasons why this should be the case? (109-110)
4. How important is parental involvement as a predictor of both early onset of criminal offending and the persistence of offending from 21 to 32? Why is it that parental involvement has that effect? (110)