Family Type and Adult Criminality among Adolescents of Public and Private Universities in Central Region Uganda

Family type is a strong predictor of adult criminality, people from broken families or households with a single parent are more likely to commit crimes than people from intact families. Conversely, families can also teach children aggressive, antisocial, and violent behavior. In adults’ lives, family responsibilities may provide an important stabilizing force. Given these possibilities, family life may directly contribute to the development of delinquent and criminal tendencies The research on the influence of family and adult criminality is important to unearth interventions to adolescents at risk of becoming latent criminals when adults. Results show that, since then practitioners, policymakers, and researchers have attempted to learn more about the role families play in adult criminality is important especially when parents have high expectations and low interactions with their children. Experts have developed a multitude of theoretical models and analyses linking family type and adult criminality. Criminologists suggest that a child who grows up in a dysfunctional family may learn aggressive or antisocial behavior; may not be taught to control unacceptable behavior, delay gratification, or respect the rights of others; or may not be adequately supervised to preclude association with antisocial or delinquent peers. As a consequence, they say, the child becomes inadequately socialized and unable to constrain his or her behavior within acceptable boundaries.