One purpose of this study was to determine whether parental involvement, measured in late adolescence, mediates the relationship between delinquency in mid-adolescence and crime in early adulthood. This study's second purpose was to ascertain whether this relationship is moderated by sex, such that late adolescent parental involvement mediates the delinquency-crime relationship in females but n...

Drawing on the emerging life-course paradigm in criminological theory, this study examines the relationship between cognitive ability and delinquent behavior within a sample of inner-city youth. The results indicate that net of statistical controls, cognitive ability maintains a robust inverse relationship with the likelihood of the onset of delinquency, the early onset of delinquency, and the ...

This study examined whether witnessed community and parental violence represented risk factors for substance use and delinquency among adolescents, beyond the contribution of direct violence and other risk factors. We also examined the role of violence characteristics. Participants were a national sample of 3,614 adolescents. Structured telephone interviews assessed demographics, trauma history...

This study tested whether proactive and reactive aggression were differently predictive of later externalizing problems such as delinquency and DSM-related disruptive behaviors (i.e. oppositional defiant and conduct disorders). It also tested whether these two subtypes of aggressive behaviors interacted in predicting externalizing problems. A community sample of low SES boys participated in the...

As societies attempt to create order and structure they produce symptoms of distress, such as high rates of crime, delinquency and mental disorder. The project of developing a totalizing perspective on a phenomenon as varied and complex as delinquency requires a search into both the underlying structuring principles that create the social order and local subsystems shaped by the uneven pressure...

OBJECTIVE Child maltreatment constitutes a strong risk factor for violent delinquency in adolescence, with cumulative experiences of maltreatment creating increasingly greater risk. Our previous work demonstrated that a universal school-based violence prevention program could provide a protective impact for youth at risk for violent delinquency due to child maltreatment history. In this study w...

This study aims to analyze juvenile delinquency at MAN 2 Padangsidimpuan. It consists of the types delinquency, causal factors, and efforts counseling teacher in alleviating delinquency. The research method used is descriptive qualitative. subjects were students, teachers, subject homeroom parents students taken using snowball sampling technique. Research instruments observation, interviews, do...

Delinquency is a social phenomenon and has background, although biological, psychological, geographical, ethnic, racial other factors play very important role in the formation occurrence of delinquency, explaining problem based on environment factor, renewing attitude society. It science, especially functioning smallest most institution, family, which plays an cooperation harmonizing normative ...

This study evaluated bidirectional associations between substance use, aggression, and delinquency across sixth, seventh, and eighth grades using data available from a large study of urban minority youth (n = 2,931). Group-based trajectory analysis revealed trajectories of aggression, delinquency, and substance use which support the existence of both adolescent-limited and life-course persisten...

OBJECTIVE To determine how early puberty and peer deviance relate to trajectories of aggressive and delinquent behavior in early adolescence and whether these relationships differ by race/ethnicity. METHODS In this longitudinal study, 2607 girls from 3 metropolitan areas and their parents were interviewed at ages 11, 13, and 16 years. Girls reported on their age of onset of menarche, best fri...