Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: coercion and punishment in the fabric of social relations
- I Mental health, coercion, and punishment
- II Family socialization practices and antisocial behavior
- 5 Coercion as a basis for early age of onset for arrest
- 6 Disentangling mother–child effects in the development of antisocial behavior
- 7 Family and child factors in stability and change in children's aggressiveness in elementary school
- 8 Kindergarten behavioral patterns, parental practices, and early adolescent antisocial behavior
- 9 The reciprocal influence of punishment and child behavior disorder
- 10 The development of coercive family processes: the interaction between aversive toddler behavior and parenting factors
- III Aggression and coercion in the schools
- IV Deviance, crime, and discipline
- V Measuring and predicting in studies of coercion and punishment
- Name index
- Subject index
5 - Coercion as a basis for early age of onset for arrest
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: coercion and punishment in the fabric of social relations
- I Mental health, coercion, and punishment
- II Family socialization practices and antisocial behavior
- 5 Coercion as a basis for early age of onset for arrest
- 6 Disentangling mother–child effects in the development of antisocial behavior
- 7 Family and child factors in stability and change in children's aggressiveness in elementary school
- 8 Kindergarten behavioral patterns, parental practices, and early adolescent antisocial behavior
- 9 The reciprocal influence of punishment and child behavior disorder
- 10 The development of coercive family processes: the interaction between aversive toddler behavior and parenting factors
- III Aggression and coercion in the schools
- IV Deviance, crime, and discipline
- V Measuring and predicting in studies of coercion and punishment
- Name index
- Subject index
Summary
At different developmental stages, antisocial behavior may be learned in very different ways and in very different settings. It is hypothesized that young antisocial children are most likely to acquire antisocial behaviors in the home (Patterson, Reid, & Dishion, 1992). In that setting, the most likely causal mechanism involves contingent use of aversive stimuli in escape-conditioning sequences. On the other hand, it is assumed that those who wait until adolescence to become antisocial are trained by members of the deviant peer group in settings where adult supervision is at a minimum. For them, the causal mechanisms are thought to be modeling, positive reinforcement, and avoidant conditioning rather than escape conditioning. Presumably, the early training in the home leads to early police arrest and chronic offending, whereas training in the peer group during mid-adolescence leads to late arrest but not to chronicity (Patterson, Capaldi, & Bank, 1991).
The present report is focused primarily on the early-onset path to chronic delinquent offending. There is a succession of problems to be considered. First, how is it that one family member reinforces another for being coercive? Much of this unlikely training is supposed to involve the exchange of aversive stimuli and escape-conditioning sequences. What is the evidence for such a process in family interaction? The vast bulk of family interaction, even when it involves aversive stimuli, seems relatively trivial in nature. How can the progression from trivial to high-amplitude coercive behaviors (physical assault) be explained?
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- Coercion and Punishment in Long-Term Perspectives , pp. 81 - 105Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995
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