Using a procedure similar to the one described by Conger and Killeen (1974), we evaluated levels of attending for 25 college students who participated in either a 20-min (n = 12) or 30-min (n = 13) discussion on juvenile delinquency. Confederates delivered statements of agreement (e.g., "I agree with that point") according to independent variable-interval schedules. Pooled results were evaluate...

This study examined the association between childhood ADHD and juvenile delinquency by examining data from the Pittsburgh ADHD Longitudinal Study (PALS), a follow-up study of individuals diagnosed with ADHD in childhood (ages 5-12) and recontacted in adolescence and young adulthood for yearly follow-up (age at first follow-up interview M = 17.26, SD = 3.17). Participants were 288 males with chi...

Non-problem Brothers by the Subcommission on Causes and Effects of Crime. Albany: J. B. Lyon Company, 1929, 40S p. This is the tenth report of the Sub-commission and is concerned with a study of problem boys and their non-problem brothers. The cases were selected from two areas in New York County where juvenile delinquency was known to constitute a serious problem, a part of the lower East Side...

Much space is being devoted in the daily press to the question of the increased incidence of juvenile delinquency since the outbreak of war. In surveying the present problem it has to be borne in mind that juvenile delinquency was increasing year by year for about ten years up to 1937 and that, after the passing of the Children and Young Persons Act in 1933, the increase became much more marked...

are most delinquent offenses committed in groups but that most lone offenders are influenced by companions.’ Somewhat later, Shaw and Meyer2 and Shaw and 11cKay3 estimated the extent to which juvenile delinquency is group activity, showing that less than 20 percent are lone offenders in juvenile court samples. Shaw and 1~’IcKay also showed that the modal size of offending groups is two and thre...