This paper assesses how many children and youth have had exposure to programs aimed at preventing various kinds of violence perpetration and victimization. Based on a national sample of children 5-17, 65% had ever been exposed to a violence prevention program, 55% in the past year. Most respondents (71%) rated the programs as very or somewhat helpful. Younger children (5-9) who had been exposed...

From one election to another, crime remains one of the biggest social and political issues, and it is a favourite subject of campaign promises by politicians. Crime imposes large costs onto society which are not taken into account by official measures of well-being and happiness of the nations. In addition, crime responds to economic conditions and incentives, which is well accepted among econo...

The basic process of adolescent development involves changing relations between the individual and the multiple levels of the context within which the young person is embedded. Variation in the substance and timing of these relations promotes diversity in adolescence and represents sources of risk or protective factors across this life period. The key risk factors of the contemporary American a...

This project describes the psychopathology and personality findings in 14 juveniles who committed sexual homicide. These incarcerated youth were assessed using a structured interview, a personality assessment instrument, correctional files review, and an author-designed clinical interview. Nearly all of these youth met DSM-III-R conduct disorder criteria at the time of the crime. The presence o...

The article presents fi ndings of a doctoral research project that examined the implementation of legislation targeted at youth ‘anti-social behaviour’, which began with the Crime and Disorder Act 1998 (Sadler, 2004). A 2-year ethnographic case study examined the implementation of the legislation on an inner city housing estate in England, and the broader effects of the contemporary ‘youth “ant...

Individual returns of schooling have been examined intensively but social returns of schooling have received less attention. If schooling yields not only individual returns but also social returns such as a reduction in crime then the rationale for policies which encourage individual investments in schooling is strengthened. In this paper, we explore the e ect of schooling on juvenile delinquen...