INTRODUCTION The study aim was to describe behaviours associated with autistic traits. METHODS The Childhood Behaviour Checklist (CBCL) and Social Communication Questionnaire (SCQ) were used as measures of behaviour and autistic traits respectively in 331 adolescents receiving educational support. CBCL scores were compared between three groups defined by SCQ score: autism, pervasive developme...

OBJECTIVE Parents' poor monitoring of adolescents' whereabouts and activities is commonly linked to adolescents' increased engagement in delinquent behaviors. Yet, different domains of parental monitoring (parental monitoring behaviors vs. parental knowledge) and reports from multiple informants (parent vs. adolescent) may vary in their links to delinquent behavior. DESIGN Seventy-four parent...

Youth gangs are on the rise. Today they threaten virtually every major city, many small communities, and even rural areas. The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) is committed to helping communities overcome this problem, and an essential first step is understanding the factors that contribute to the growth of youth gangs and the relationship of gang membership to deli...

This research studies the social participation of the parents of delinquent and non-delinquent teenagers on the school affairs in Tehran comparatively. Hirchie's theory of social control were accepted as research framework in the paper. The survey method were used and all the high-school students from the age of 15 to 18 in the district of 4 and 15 in Tehran were chosen. About 60 delinquent and...

This paper has emphases on various types Children specially juvenile delinquent Children often test the limits and boundaries set by their parents and other authority figures. Among adolescents some rebelliousness and experimentation is common. However a few children consistently participate in problematic behaviors that negatively affect their family academic social and personal functioning. T...

Within Criminology, the analysis of the emergence of criminal behaviour is one of the main challenges [4]. An important mechanism behind this emergence is social learning [3]. To analyse this mechanism, this paper presents an agent-based approach to simulate social learning, which specifically addresses the mutual influence of peers, parents and school, with respect to delinquent behaviour. To ...

The aim of the paper is to spot important role basic sociologic and psychologic theories in special education deviant delinquent individuals or group individuals. Diachronically, delinquency was first interpreted by a demonological conception that evil spirits urged people commit acts. Later, Enlightenment, secular interpretations criminal behaviour appeared. This type addresses groups identifi...