Early delinquency predicts weak adult social bonds, and weak adult social bonds predict concurrent and later adult crime and deviance. The process is thus one in which childhood antisocial behavior and adolescent delinquency is linked to adult crime and deviance in part through weak social bonds (Siegel pg 75).
Gender is the most consistent variable across all forms of violence. Men commit more violence than women. Violence does not occur every time a male is present; the presence of male hormones in the bloodstream cannot tell us when violence will occur, or how severe it will be (Siegel pg 69). Additionally, gender has an effect on violence because it locates people in the social structure in terms of power, hierarchy, advantages, and disadvantages. The strongest and most consistent effects on both official and unofficial delinquency in adolescence flow from processes of social control connected to family, school, and peers. Along with race and class, gender affects beliefs, attitudes, deviance, the people with whom one associates, models, consequences of behavior, and opportunities (Siegel pg 68- 70).
In addition, school attachment had large negative associations with delinquency independent of family processes. Some scholars hold that mother and her bad behavior traumatizes children and leads them to crime 10, 20, or 40 years later.
It is been said that mother withholds the breast or gets angry over dirty diapers or seduces the child because of her own distorted sexual life. Such mothering creates a childhood trauma which forever generates a cycle of neurotic behavior, some of which is criminal. In this theoretical house, the kind of trauma you experience in childhood; oral, anal, or genital...shapes the kind of crime you are likely to commit in adulthood.
This theory has been tested extensively and is not worth much as explanation of crime.
Most crime arises out of current social conditions not out of painful experiences that happened a long time ago. Most people who had painful experiences grow up to be adequate human beings. A lot of people who had quite good homes and healthy childhood now engage in the forms of white collar crime, they engage in political crime as well as corporate crime.
There is distorted sexuality. The question is whether mother is to blame for that distorted sexuality or whether alienated sexuality arises out of the political and economic conditions of a society. People do have trouble getting along with other people because they were not parented properly. Parenting is very important. But to blame mothers today for crime tomorrow is a piece of sexist politics which shifts the attention of the student from poorly organized societies to poorly organized women.
As a conclusion we can say that the factors of predictive of delinquency are: low levels of parental supervision; the combination of erratic, threatening, harsh discipline; and weak parental attachment.
Reference
Siegel, J. Larry (2004). Criminology. Theories, patterns and typologies.
Eight edition.