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    Parenting, criminal thinking styles, and identity among juvenile delinquents
    (University of Management and Technology, 2017) Fatima Sana
    The current research was aimed at developing an inventory of criminal thinking styles for juvenile delinquents and determining the mediating role of parenting styles between juveniles' criminal thinking styles and criminal social identity. The total sample consisted of 211 juvenile delinquents from different prisons. An inventory was developed to assess criminal thinking among juvenile delinquents known as Juvenile Criminal Thinking Styles' Inventory that was comprised of three scales, namely Juvenile Social Alienation Scale, Juvenile Vindication Scale, and Juvenile Domination Scale. Each scale was explored, developed, and validated, separately. Parental Authority Questionnaire (PAQ; Buri, 1991; Babree, 1997) was used to examine the proposed mediating role of parenting styles between the relationship of criminal thinking styles and criminal social identity and Measure of Criminal Social Identity (MCSI; Boduszek et al., 2012; Shagufta, 2015) was used to examine the standardized direct and indirect relationship with criminal thinking through proposed mediators. The results indicated that the inventory found to have high internal consistency, convergent, and concurrent validities. Moreover, parenting styles, criminal thinking styles, and criminal social identity were significantly associated with each other, while parenting and social identity served as significant predictors of criminal thinking. Also, the parenting styles partially mediated the relationship of juveniles' criminal thinking and criminal social identity. The findings indicate that delinquents are likely to develop distorted thought patterns through the bonds with criminal peers and that this can be invoked by parental authority styles. Conclusively, the research outcomes are discussed in terms of the implications of criminal thinking styles for juvenile correctional counselling services and propose further research.