Older persons face an array of challenges with regard to parenting a delinquent grandchild. The study adopted qualitative approach the use explorative and descriptive design, data collected from in-depth interviews grandparents, communities probation officers. also phenomenology as specific research approach. Findings revealed that grandparents their grandchildren pernicious experiences grandch...

Despite the well-established association between adolescent sexual activity and delinquent behavior, little research has examined the potential importance of relationship contexts in moderating this association. The current study used longitudinal, behavioral genetic data on 519 same-sex twin pairs (48.6% female) divided into two age cohorts (13-15 and 16-18 years olds) drawn from the National ...

OBJECTIVE Substance use and delinquency among adolescents have been shown to be positively associated; however, the temporal relationship is not well understood. Examining the association between delinquency and substance use is especially relevant among adolescents with a first-time substance use related offense as they are at-risk for future problems. METHOD Data from 193 adolescents at tim...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate associations between actigraphic sleep patterns, subjective sleep quality, and daytime functioning (ie, sleepiness, symptoms of depression, and delinquency and other conduct problems) in at-risk adolescents. DESIGN Prospective, observational cohort study. SETTING Providence, RI, predominantly home and school and 2 visits to the Brown Center for the Study of Children at...

(Koutledge and Kegan faul, JJs.) This is the third member of the Gluecks' monumental trilogy, the previous two being Unravelling Juvenile Delinquency, and Physique and Delinquency. It is helpful if the reader has had previous acquaintance with the Gluecks' earlier works. The present 328-page volume is more readable than the predecessors, for it is divided into three sections, the first 106 page...

The goal of the present study was to investigate three issues in the current debate on youth delinquency: (1) Whether the level of delinquency of adolescents is negatively correlated with the quality of her/his personal networks (as stated by the social inability model) or not (as stated by the social ability model); (2) Whether there is homophily in adolescents’ networks regarding degree of de...