Juvenile Criminality in Kosovo

Family Relationships, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality*

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...

Graduates Unemployment and Criminality in Ado-Ekiti

This paper examines the effect of unemployment on the behavior of the university graduates in Ado-Ekiti and their immediate environment. Hanging the study on strain theory of Robert K. Merton, It is observed that Nigerian society places much emphasis on goals without making adequate provision for the means of achieving them; the tendency is to resort to deviant means. Multi-stage sampling techn...

Multisystemic treatment of serious juvenile offenders: long-term prevention of criminality and violence.

This article examined the long-term effects of multisystemic therapy (MST) vs. individual therapy (IT) on the prevention of criminal behavior and violent offending among 176 juvenile offenders at high risk for committing additional serious crimes. Results from multiagent, multimethod assessment batteries conducted before and after treatment showed that MST was more effective than IT in improvin...

Explanation of Criminality

It must be difficult for one who holds Jungian views to review a book which aPproaches human behaviour from a scientific and experimental standpoint, but this does not justify the misunderstanding and misrepresentation displayed by Dr. Torrie, who appears to start from fhe assumption that while it is interestln8 and important to speculate why criminals are what they are, it is a waste ?f time t...

Personality and later criminality