BACKGROUND Adolescence denotes a time in which youth begins to experience dangerous behaviors like substance use and delinquency. OBJECTIVES In this study, we investigated the family power structure and identity style in delinquent and non-delinquent juveniles residing in Tehran, Iran. MATERIALS AND METHODS To accomplish the goal of the study, 80 adolescent delinquents of the correction and...

This study addresses the need to empirically test theories about the pathways to drug involvement pertinent to severe-end, clinic-referred youth. In this light, the validity of the conduct disorder hypothesis of adolescent drug abuse, primarily tested to date on normal youth samples, was examined in a drug clinic-referred sample (N = 2582). All subjects met DSM-III-R criteria for either abuse o...

Helping communities combat gang activity is a leading priority for the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP), and our Gang Reduction Program has been a key initiative to that end. A comprehensive, integrated, and coordinated approach to prevent ing and reducing gang activity, the program emphasizes addressing the needs of youth and affecting change in families, organizat...

This article examines whether running away from home mediates the link between child maltreatment and later delinquency and victimization in adolescence. Specifically, the authors tested the hypothesis that childhood physical and psychological abuse increase the risk of a child's running away from home by the time of adolescence. Running away from home is, in turn, hypothesized to increase the ...

Sleep, a key indicator of health, has been linked to a variety of indicators of well-being such that people who get an adequate amount generally experience greater well-being. Further, a lack of sleep has been linked to a wide range of negative developmental outcomes, yet sleep has been largely overlooked among researchers interested in adolescent delinquency. The purpose of this study was to e...