Gender Differences in Violent Offending in Childhood and Early Adolescence: The Mediating Roles of Dual Systems Imbalance and Parental Monitoring
Journal of Interpersonal Violence
Published online on November 28, 2025
Abstract
Journal of Interpersonal Violence, Ahead of Print.
The gender gap in offending is a robust finding, and this gap extends to violent offending. However, there is limited research that has explored mechanisms explaining this relationship in childhood and early adolescence. This is concerning because early ...
The gender gap in offending is a robust finding, and this gap extends to violent offending. However, there is limited research that has explored mechanisms explaining this relationship in childhood and early adolescence. This is concerning because early ...