Psychological characteristics of juvenile offenders with constant integration problems

Characteristics of Juvenile Offenders

Answer 1: When examining the juvenile justice system, it is important to recognize some general commonalities about juvenile offenders. Before explaining some general characteristics of juvenile offenders, it must be pointed out that these characteristics are based on the information about juveniles who go through the system, which means that these general characteristics might be very differen...

Offense related characteristics and psychosexual development of juvenile sex offenders

OBJECTIVE This article reports on offense related characteristics and the psychosexual development in subgroups of juvenile sex offenders as measured by the Global Assessment Instrument for Juvenile Sex Offenders (GAIJSO). The predictive validity of these characteristics for persistent (sexual) offensive behavior in subgroups of juvenile sex offenders was investigated. METHODS One hundred sev...

Juvenile Victims and Offenders

Immunological Features of Juvenile Offenders

We assume that complex mental changes caused by penal stress are often accompanied by a decline in the immune response. Evaluation immunophysiological shifts in people adolescence that are conditions of detention are the target of this study. A total of 57 adolescents, 47 of them students of educational colonies of Russia's largest cities, and 10 students of secondary and higher educational ins...

Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders

One approach to identifying gaps in knowledge about serious and violent juvenile (SVJ) offenders is to focus on "missing information" in the empirical literature. It would be quite easy, in fact, to compile a long list of research questions covering a diverse set of topics. This is an important task that is necessary in recommending future research priorities. However, I propose that future res...