THIS PAPER IS IN TWO PARTS. THE FIRST SECTION MAKES SOME observations about young people, crime and the police, and the particular vulnerability of Aboriginal youth coming to the attention of the police. Two issues, the maintenance of public order and juvenile offending, provide the framework for the discussion here. The second section looks at the nexus between the pre-trial conference a rece...

OBJECTIVES Adolescents do not achieve recommended levels of physical activity. Crime is believed to be a barrier to physical activity among youth, but findings are inconsistent. This study compares the spatial distribution of crime incidences and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) among adolescents in Massachusetts between 2011 and 2012, and examines the correlation between crime and...

Introduction In recent years as concerns over youth violence and youth crime has increased, policy makers have devoted more resources to delinquency prevention programs. These prevention programs are generally based on the premise that early intervention reduces the likelihood that youths will later end up in the juvenile or criminal justice system. However, as prevention programs expand, polic...

Media hyperbole about children and crime, along with electoral politics, may well reflect a configuration of personal anxieties, competing social values and public policy options. In this article, I will argue that it is a configuration that represents a crisis of governance far more than a crisis of ‘youth’. However, the research community is far from blameless in the propagation of ‘myths’ ab...

There is longstanding evidence that youth raised by single parents are more likely to perform poorly in school and partake in ‘deviant’ behaviors such as smoking, sex, substance use and crime. However, there is not widespread agreement as to whether the timing of the marital disruption differentially impacts youth outcomes. Using the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and its Young Adult Sup...

Previous studies have presented correlation analyses among fuzzy attributes. This study proposes a correlation analysis method among crisp attributes and fuzzy attributes to investigate their linear relationships. If A and B are two attributes, A is a nominal-dichotomous attribute, and B is a fuzzy attribute. Thus, identifying the relationship between A and B is possible by using the pointbiser...