TRENDS IN JUVENILE DELINQUENCY By David L. Jones This is a study on trends in juvenile delinquency. The study mentions, within the introduction, factors such as unemployment rates, high school dropout rates, poverty, and juvenile delinquency case rates in the United States, which are actually the variables that are used in the study to illustrate a relationship between them and the current tren...

This paper presents an analysis of mortgage delinquency between 2004 and 2008 using a loan-level data set from a major national mortgage bank. Our analysis highlights two problems underlying the mortgage crisis: a reliance on mortgage brokers who tend to originate lowerquality loans and a prevalence of low-documentation loans—known in the industry as ‘‘liar’s loans’’—that result in borrower inf...

This study reviews several empirical researches which highlight the effect of post-divorce parental conflict as one of the most important factors on adolescents’ delinquency in divorced families. Research consistently shows that parental conflict affects parental relationship and this poor parental quality may transfer into poor parent-child relationship that may negatively influence adolescent...

According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from 1991 to 2000, arrests of girls increased more (or decreased less) than arrests of boys for most types of offenses. By 2004, girls accounted for 30 percent of all juvenile arrests. However, questions remain about whether these trends reflect an actual increase in girls’ delinquency or changes in societal responses to girls’ behavio...

objective: the present research aimed to study the relationship of identity styles and attitude toward delinquency with delinquent behavior of adolescents. methods: the present research is a cross sectional study. data collection tools were berzonsky’s identity style inventory, attitude toward delinquent behaviors questionnaire, and interviews, which were analyzed through simultaneous regressio...

This paper reviews the interrelationship among family structure, and child delinquency. This paper attempts to explain the effect of family structure on juvenile delinquency. The least amount of communication and structure of the family may be some of the reasons which provides, the more likely make the child will engage in delinquent activities. Patterns of family behavior, decision making and...

According to data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation, from 1991 to 2000, arrests of girls increased more (or decreased less) than arrests of boys for most types of offenses. By 2004, girls accounted for 30 percent of all juvenile arrests. However, questions remain about whether these trends reflect an actual increase in girls’ delinquency or changes in societal responses to girls’ behavio...

This study was designed in 1962 to investigate the reformative effect of a particular punishment (caning) for a particular offence (smoking by schoolboys). In 1964, in the course of a larger study of juvenile offences, delinquency records were obtained from the police, and the relationship between smoking and delinquency is also discussed in this paper.

Background: Previous evidence of gene-by-environment interactions associated with emotional and behavioral disorders is contradictory. Differences in findings may result from variation in valence and dose of the environmental factor, and/ or failure to take account of gene-by-gene interactions. The present study investigated interactions between the brainderived neurotrophic factor gene (BDNF V...

This study aims to provide answers for the two primary questions, namely: first, what is role of legal psychology public prosecutors in handling juvenile delinquency? Second, are obstacles using delinquency cases? The research method normative juridical which collaborated with approache empirical method. results this are: Public Prosecutors Juvenile Delinquency cases understand background, fact...