One of the main developmental issues that has remained completely unsolved and needs to be investigated is the development of different types of antisocial behaviour (Farrington, 1997; Loeber, 1982). There are, however, a few relevant findings in this area. Most research on family variables has focused on non-specific effects on delinquency as a global outcome, and only limited attention has been paid to correlation with different types of antisocial behaviour.Parenting practice in this study is conceptualized as Travis Hirschi's (1969) classic version of social control theory describes affective ties between parent and child as important source of indirect social control, and as direct controls, which are external controls imposed by restriction and punishment.The aim of the study was to specify associations of maternal and paternal indirect and direct control with different types of adolescents' antisocial behaviour.The sample of the study consisted of two groups of adolescents: institutionalised antisocial male subjects and matched control group from Estonia. The first group comprised 75 male young offenders attending a state training. The second, control group, consisted of adolescents from randomly selected three different comprehensive schools from different parts of Estonia. Using matched pairs method, the antisocial adolescents were matched by maximum amount of demographic and family contextual variables with the control group subjects: age, sex, residence, nationality of mother and father, and birth order of the respondent among other children in the family. The total number of subjects was 150 (75 antisocial adolescents and 75 controls) ranging in age from 10 to 17 years.Two research instruments were used: (1) self-report antisocial behaviour questionnaire measuring the frequency of 22 antisocial acts: ranging from less serious behaviour such as lying, to theft and property destruction as more serious acts, and (2) parenting practice questionnaire consisting of a battery of ten questionnaires describing parenting practice: material and paternal indirect and direct controls (overall 210 variables).Research results indicated that there were several parenting practice risk factors that significantly correlated with different types of antisocial behaviour of the adolescents.Specific types of aggression tended to be related to distortions in parental indirect controls (parent-son mutual attachment) and direct controls (strict and partial discipline). Adolescents' oppositional behaviour, as the second subtype of antisocial behaviour, tended to be connected with distortions in parental indirect controls (rejection of adolescents by parent) and in direct controls (adolescents' opposition against parental discipline).Property violation, as destructive and covert antisocial behaviour, tended to correlate with distortions in parental indirect controls (affectional ties between parents and adolescents) and parental, especially paternal, direct controls (parental strict and partial discipline, paternal unsupervised leisure time of their sons).The role of mothers and fathers in the development of different types of status offences tended to be different and depended on different distortions in indirect controls (affectional attachment or affectional identification) and direct controls (unfair discipline or unsupervised leisure time).There were two general tendencies: (1) the adolescents' overt antisocial behaviour tended to be associated with distortions in parental discipline, and covert antisocial behaviour with distortions in parental (especially paternal) supervision; and (2) the adolescents' destructive behaviour tended to be related to parental strict and partial discipline practice.Connections of parenting practice with different types of adolescents' antisocial behaviour offered, on the one hand, evidence against a unitary concept of antisocial behaviour, and on the other hand, supported the usefulness of conceptualizing adolescents' antisocial behaviour in two-dimensional terms: overt versus covert, and destructive verus nondestructive.