Who Gets Caught? the Role of Parental Monitoring, Parental Affect and Peed Deviance in Predicting Re-Arrest

The current study examines the role parents and peers play in preventing or promoting adolescent re-arrest. Using data from a longitudinal study of first-time offenders, we ran several negative binomial regressions and found that parental monitoring reduces the number of re-arrests, while association with delinquent peers had no effect.