Both callous-unemotional (CU) traits and impulse control are known risk factors associated with delinquency and substance use. However, research is limited in how contextual factors such as neighborhood conditions influence the associations between these two dispositional factors and these two externalizing behaviors. The current study utilized latent class analysis (LCA) to identify unique cla...

Boys who exhibit interpersonal callousness (IC), hyperactivity/impulsivity (HI), inattention (IN), and conduct problems (CP) may be at risk for exhibiting persistent delinquent behavior. However, few studies have established the distinctiveness of these constructs or examined their relative contributions to the prediction of delinquent behavior across different developmental periods. This study...

This paper investigates the impact of early noncognitive skills on social outcomes in adolescence. The child’s attention span, initial reaction, mood and sensitivity in early childhood may be important predictors for school achievements, health behavior patterns, juvenile delinquency and the personality as adolescent. We investigate this issue using a longitudinal epidemiological cohort study o...

Delinquency and problem behavior intention were examined in 3328 secondary one students in Hong Kong. Over 60 % of the respondents had cheated and spoken foul language over the past year, but majority had never engaged in other problem behaviors, such as sexual intercourse, staying outside their home overnight, gang fi ghting, and truancy. A signifi cant proportion of the respondents would atte...

BACKGROUND Little is known about how physical activity and various high-risk behaviors of youth are associated, particularly in disadvantaged, minority neighborhoods. PURPOSE We examine whether fear, victimization, and perceived incivilities are associated with physical activity and outdoor recreation among Latino youth and whether involvement in physical activity is associated with delinquen...

The relationship between possible selves and delinquency is explored. In this study, 238 youths between the ages of 13-16 who varied in the degree of their delinquency were asked to describe their possible selves. Although many similarities were found among their hoped-for selves, the groups of youth differed markedly in the nature of their expected and feared selves. The balance between expect...

The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is dedicated to preventing and reversing trends of increased delinquency and violence among adolescents. These trends have alarmed the public and challenged the juvenile justice system. It is widely accepted that increases in delinquency and violence over the past decade are rooted in a number of interrelated social problems—chil...

Previous studies have argued that not only indirect controls but also direct controls lessen delinquency. Through a self-report survey of high school youths, the current study attempts to assess this thesis. Supportive of previous studies, the data revealed that even with a range of theoretically salient variables controlled, direct control was inversely related to delinquent involvement. This ...

an indication of some mental variation in the individual. That delinquency occurs means more than simply something the matter with the individual ; it signifies also some malady of society. There is a tendency among some workers to regard social conditions as embracing the whole causation, but to adopt such a point of view is to be in error. There are nearly always several causal factors, as al...