Those seeking to deter young offenders from further delinquency will benefit from the information provided in these pages. Recently reported findings of the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention’s (OJJDP’s) Study Group on Very Young Offenders confirm the seriousness of early offending behavior. Study Group researchers report, for example, that the risk of becoming a more serious...

Violent video game playing is correlated with aggression, but its relation to antisocial behavior in correctional and juvenile justice samples is largely unknown. Based on a data from a sample of institutionalized juvenile delinquents, behavioral and attitudinal measures relating to violent video game playing were associated with a composite measure of delinquency and a more specific measure of...

The authors undertook a survey among senior high school students in an ordinary high school and delinquents in a reformantry concerning the corre lation among three behaviours. Those are: 1. overt deliquency, 2. predelin quent acts (drinking and smoking in particular), 3. delinquent behaviour in fantasy. Results follow, 1. The sense of alienation is quite common among Japanese adolescents (arou...

Background: The aim of this study is to explore the cause forensic report orders, socio-demographic characteristics and comorbid mental disorders in children adolescents passed court for any reason referred a child adolescent psychiatry outpatient clinical by judicial authority Şanlıurfa province. Materials Methods: In study, we retrospectively reviewed files 64 cases which clinic psychiatric a...

Using decolonial perspective, this paper critically examines how certain child protection interventions in Kenya might increase childhood vulnerabilities among children from poor social backgrounds who are disproportionately represented the justice system. Findings point to ambivalent practices as a result of entrenched colonial legacies which criminalises juvenile ‘delinquents’, relying heavil...