An Experiment in Predicting Delinquency

Animal Rights Consideration is a Necessity in Conducting an Experiment

Predicting the Development of Juvenile Delinquency by Simulation

A large number of delinquent activities are performed by adolescents and only occur during this period in their lives. One of the main factors that influence this behaviour is social interaction, mainly with peers. This paper contributes a computational model that predicts delinquent behaviour during adolescence based on interaction with friends and classmates. Based on the model, which was val...

Predicting Faults from Direct Semantic Interference: An Evaluative Experiment

Parallel developments are becoming increasingly prevalent in the building and evolution of large-scale software systems. Our previous studies of a large industrial project showed that there was a linear correlation between the degree of parallelism and the likelihood of defects in the changes. To further study the relationship between parallel changes and faults, we have designed and implemente...

Juvenile Delinquency in an English Middletown

an approach which is neither purely a mass of statistics nOr such a specialized view of the subject that one facet only is given intensive consideration. In this ecological study of a region, in which the problem is viewed from as many aspects as available data makes possible, the material is drawn largely from probation and supervision cases appearing before the local Juvenile Court; the 109 p...

An examination of sex differences in delinquency

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