Results of the study showed that parental crime did not have a link with low self-control and that parental low self-control did have a link with low self-control and delinquency. Researchers have shown that parenting practices are important in self-control theory. The purpose of this study was to shed light on the view that parental self-control mediates the link between low self-control and delinquency. The study presented a three factor model (parental crime to low self-control to delinquency) that was compared to two theoretically derived alternative models. Data for the study came from the 1980 maternal self-report, the 1992 and 1994 maternal self-report, and the 1998 child self-report from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth. Figures, references, and appendixes