The relationship between school commitment and delinquency A lack of commitment to school or academic failure is often associated with the onset of delinquency and the escalation of serious offending. [...] The results of the analyses presented in this paper assess the extent to which different factors modify the risk of delinquency among males and females while controlling for a number of additional socio-demographic factors. [...] In order to visualize the presence of significant interactions, this paper presents a number of plots showing differences in the male and female likelihood for committing a delinquent act at different levels of the risk and protective factors. [...] The complex sample design of the NLSCY necessitates the use of the bootstrap technique to estimate coefficients of variation, confidence intervals and to test for statistical significance of differences (Rao et al. [...] Table 3 displays the partial odds ratios associated with the main effects for sex and school commitment, the interaction between sex and school commitment, and the set of socio-economic and demographic control variables, after controlling for the other variables in the model.