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Marital Instability and Juvenile Delinquency Among the Nez Perces 1
Author(s) -
ACKERMAN LILLIAN A.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1971.73.3.02a00050
Subject(s) - juvenile delinquency , juvenile , criminology , instability , psychology , demography , sociology , ecology , biology , physics , mechanics
This study is concerned with the causes of juvenile delinquency among the Nez Perce Indians of Idaho. Marital instability is examined in the past and present for its relationship to contemporary juvenile delinquency. Additional factors considered include the loss of aboriginal communal discipline, the loss of patrilocality, and the continuation of inappropriate aboriginal male and female roles into the present.