Question

Jerry participates in a variety of extreme sports, smokes weed, has gotten into bar fights, and occasionally involves himself in a burglary with friends. He performed poorly in school and was raised in a low-income, single-parent household. His mom worked two jobs and was not around often to monitor Jerry's activities when he was younger, most of which were delinquent in nature. Gottfredson and Hirschi would attribute __________________ to Jerry's lack of self-control.

Answer 1

Inadequate parenting.

Step-by-step explanation:

Inadequate parenting style is the one in which parents are neglectful towards their children. In such parenting, style parents ignore the needs of guidance and affection. The result of such parenting is that these kids do not learn the values, appropriate behaviors which may lead them to misbehave.

Gottfredson and Hirschi developed a theory of crime. In theory, they theorized that the reason for kids' delinquent behavior is their lack of self-control. They suggested that this self-control is very much related to the parenting style of such kids.

In the given case, Gottfredson and Hirschi would attribute the lack of self-control in Jerry due to inadequate parenting style.

Thus the correct answer is an inadequate parenting style.