Committing a crime is bad for society. As such, society must react and preserve the general good. However, there special type of delinquent, namely minor. We will not have to apply same reaction him as adult criminals because their personality in formation, degree adaptation much better. educational measures be viable solution these cases. The present paper tries on basis less generous methodol...

OBJECTIVE This article reports on offense related characteristics and the psychosexual development in subgroups of juvenile sex offenders as measured by the Global Assessment Instrument for Juvenile Sex Offenders (GAIJSO). The predictive validity of these characteristics for persistent (sexual) offensive behavior in subgroups of juvenile sex offenders was investigated. METHODS One hundred sev...

In an attempt to understand why youth commit violent acts, Daley and Onwuegbuzie (2004) conducted a study wherein they found that juvenile offenders tend to commit violence attribution errors— defined as negative emotional responses to negative social interactions which then serve as antecedents to at-risk behaviors. The purpose of this mixed methods study was to replicate Daley and Onwuegbuzie...

Executive cognitive functions (ECFs) and other cognitive impairments, such as lower IQ and verbal deficits, have been associated with the pattern of antisocial and delinquent behavior starting in childhood (early-onset), but not with late-onset antisocial behavior. Beyond objective measures of ECF, basic symptoms are prodromal, subjectively experienced cognitive, perceptual, affective, and soci...

Previous research with the US inner-city youth demonstrated the hazardous effects of community violence exposure. It remains unclear, however, whether these findings are generalizable to other cultures and populations. Furthermore, the role of factors influencing the processing of traumatic events such as personality has not been investigated. Two groups of Russian adolescents (community youth ...

Aim. The author develops complete digital dermatoglyphic investigations, on the basis of a pathological perspective, on a group of delinquents from Moldova (North-East part of Romania). Materials and methods. The study was performed on a group of 105 teen-agers and young delinquents with ages between 16 and 26 years, imprisoned in the Penitentiary of Iaşi, coming from different districts (the d...