Undetected Delinquent Behavior

Gang Membership, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquent Behavior

Youth gangs are on the rise. Today they threaten virtually every major city, many small communities, and even rural areas. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to helping communities overcome this problem, and an essential first step is understanding the factors that contribute to the growth of youth gangs and the relationship of gang membership to deli...

Fathers and Youth’s Delinquent Behavior

Fathers and Youth’s Delinquent Behavior This paper analyzes the relationship between having one or more father figures and the likelihood that young people engage in delinquent criminal behavior. We pay particular attention to distinguishing the roles of residential and non-residential, biological fathers as well as stepfathers. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Heal...

Two Measures of Reported Delinquent Behavior.

Verbal aggressive behavior in delinquent boyys.

2 studies used a laboratory measure of verbal aggressive behavior in which boys competed in pairs against one another in assembling a formboard. In Study I, 80 delinquent boys were subjected either to intense or mild verbal attack by a delinquent accomplice. Intense verbal aggression led to more retaliatory verbal aggression than did mild distraction. In Study II, 128 delinquent boys competed a...

Delinquent Behavior of Dutch Rural Adolescents

This article compares Dutch rural and non-rural adolescents' delinquent behavior and examines two social correlates of rural delinquency: communal social control and traditional rural culture. The analyses are based on cross-sectional data, containing 3,797 participants aged 13-18 (48.7% females). The analyses show that rural adolescents are only slightly less likely to engage in delinquent beh...