This article describes the juvenile crime trend and responses to juvenile delinquency in Hong Kong since the 1970s. It explores how changing conceptions of the causes of juvenile crime have influenced delinquency control policies. Although Hong Kong has a relatively low crime rate, the heavy emphasis on the use of custodial programs over community-based programs is obvious. Whereas the scope of...

Home observations during childhood and criminal records 30 years later are used to address questions of relative impact among features of child rearing influencing male criminal outcomes. The results suggest two mechanisms: Maternal behavior appears to influence juvenile delinquency and, through those eflects, adult criminali@. Paternal interaction with the family, however, appears to have a mo...

There is a large body of research that shows children from non-intact homes show higher rates of juvenile delinquency than children from intact homes, partially due to weaker parental control and supervision in non-intact homes. What has not been adequately addressed in the research is the influence of changes in family structure among individual adolescents over time on delinquent offending. U...

Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention www.ojjdp.gov 1 Suggested Reference: Development Services Group, Inc. 2016. “Family Drug Courts.” Literature review. Washington, D.C.: Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. https://www.ojjdp.gov/mpg/litreviews/Family_Drug_Courts.pdf Prepared by Development Services Group, Inc., under cooperative agreement number 2013–JF–FX–K...

Little is known about the effects of placing children who are abused or neglected into foster care. This paper uses the placement tendency of child protection investigators as an instrumental variable to identify causal effects of foster care on long-term outcomes--including juvenile delinquency, teen motherhood, and employment--among children in Illinois where a rotational assignment process e...

p0rnrnenting on the Presidential Address at the B.M.A. meeting last summer: "Mr. lJaSer emphasised the need, above all, to face some of the problems of today, increasing *sure, alcoholism, juvenile delinquency, and road accidents, and he thought that the ate and public bodies should take a more practical part in their solution. His implied Ceptance of the need for partnership between the State ...

in the rest of England is studied and comparedIt is noted that the increase is much greater in towns than in the country and there is a relative increase in the South as compared with the North, perhaps as a result of the migration ?i industries from North to South. Most of the cases dealt with which are those in the years 1934 and 1936 in Liverpool are boys, since the figures for girls are ver...

Introduction Leisure time is one of the critical issues in the dynamics of the process youth education and training and addressing to it is a solution for bottlenecks and is the key to solve its problems and finally can be consider as a strategy to planning for a desirable and worthy leisure time. Therefore the aim of this study was to evaluate the relationship between physical activity in Leis...