BACKGROUND Past research provides strong evidence that adverse life events heighten the risk of delinquent behavior among adolescents. Urban informal (slum) settlements in sub-Saharan Africa are marked by extreme adversity. However, the prevalence and consequences of adverse life events as well as protective factors that can mitigate the effects of exposure to these events in slum settlements i...

AIM To assess how drinking patterns and delinquency are associated with self-reported experiences of alcohol-related violence in an adolescent population. POPULATION AND RESEARCH DESIGN: Cross-sectional data were acquired from the Scania drug use survey 2005, consisting of 3847 students in 9th grade. Abstainers were omitted and 1873 responses analyzed, with binary and multi-variable logistic re...

Available online xxxx Background: Across multiple conceptual models in the social and behavioral sciences, the onset of antisocial behavior is inversely related to the developmental course and severity of the delinquent career. Despite this relation, there is little agreement about the best way to measure early onset. Materials and methods: Data are derived from a non-probability sample of 252 ...

BACKGROUND Delinquent youth are at risk for early violent death after release from detention. However, few studies have examined risk factors for mortality. Previous investigations studied only serious offenders (a fraction of the juvenile justice population) and provided little data on females. METHODS The Northwestern Juvenile Project is a prospective longitudinal study of health needs and ...

Title of Dissertation: REVISITING THE ROLE OF DELINQUENT ATTITUDES ON CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR Kyle J. Thomas, Doctor of Philosophy, 2015 Dissertation Directed By: Associate Professor, Jean McGloin, Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice By employing global attitude measures, which ask respondents to evaluate the abstract idea of a behavior absent of context, rather than specific measures that...

The Individual Delinquent. By William Healy, A.B., M.D. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1914. Pp. 862. All who are interested in social and clinical psychology should welcome Dr. Healy's new book "The Individual Delinquent." Dr. Healy has devoted his energies for the last five years to making a laboratory story of the science of criminalistics, and this volume represents the results of his pains...

. The only criticism of the form of the pamphlet ls that there is no table at the beginning to show its sectional headings; and of the content, the loose statement, " It seems to be the opinion of most People that the proper milieu for the male adolescent ls the society of his contemporaries especially those the same sex." This is questionable, to say the 'cast, and to rely on the seeming opini...

absence of one of his fingers bore testimony to some severe injury in the past. Mentally, Andrew was retarded or "backward" in development. Although he was eleven years of age, it was necessary to place him in a class doing the work of the second school year.. His mental deficiency was due not only to pedagogical retardation, but also, at least in part, to a physiological arrest of development ...

This study investigated the contribution of social processes in boys' adolescent relationships in 3 key domains--same-sex friends, cross-sex romantic partners, and younger siblings--to continued association with delinquent peers in young adulthood and, therefore, to continuance of an antisocial lifestyle. It was hypothesized that levels of negative interaction and antisocial talk observed durin...

Commercial mortgage default is modeled in two stages. First, a mortgage becomes delinquent, when the borrower stops making payments. Second, the delinquency is either reinstated (payments are resumed) or the lender forecloses. The results of the empirical estimations have implications for lenders’ monitoring functions. Lenders should use the critical variables of loan-to-value ratio, debt cover...