Adolescent Offenders
Emotion recognition and cognitive empathy deficits in adolescent offenders revealed by context-sensitive tasks
... Adolescent offenders (AOs) are known to present with difficul- ties in emotion recognition and empathy. However, the nature of such affective impairments is still a matter of debate. While both emotion ...
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The associations of cumulative adverse childhood experiences and irritability with mental disorders in detained male adolescent offenders
... Binary logistic regression analyses were used to exam- ine the predictive effects of the ACE total score, the irri- tability score, the interaction of the ACE total score and the irritability score, age at time of ...
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Criminal careers: A longitudinal comparison of male adolescent offenders of native Dutch and Moroccan origin in The Netherlands.
... than offenders of native Dutch origin (Weerman, ...Dutch adolescent offenders acknowledge more offences compared to adolescent offenders of Moroccan ...
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The Effects of Victim Awaress Versus Decision-Making Enhancement Training on the Moral Development, Moral Agency, and Behavior of Adolescent Offenders
... The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of two short-term group interventions with adolescent offenders. The Victim Awareness Course (VAC) was designed to help adolescents understand the ...
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Court -ordered cognitive -behavioural group treatment with adolescent offenders: Outcomes of an anger management program
... the intervention outcome would be gender, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, age, and peer. group delinquency[r] ...
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Predictors of recidivism in adolescent offenders
... For violent offenders, the strongest predictors of violent recidivism reflect a combination of environmental (e.g., poor parental supervision, poor school performance, and early social maladjustment) and ...
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Assessing Risk in Adolescent Offenders: A Comparison of Risk Profiles versus Summed Risk Factors
... In order to implement these specialized treatments, however, the offenders most at risk for recidivism and, as a result, most in need of intervention, must first be identified. Further, these treatments typically ...
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Accessibility to Group Psychotheraphy of Incarcerated Adolescent Offenders
... 6 Perhaps the most explicit statement is that of Cressey, who cautions: "At the outset, a distinction must be made between the use of group sessions for treating psychiatric patients and[r] ...
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Developmental Trajectories of Legal Socialization among Serious Adolescent Offenders
... Across all comparisons, individuals with high procedural justice perceptions regarding the police and the courts tended to have lower legal cynicism and higher legitimacy, thereby sugges[r] ...
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Psychological assessment and treatment of adolescent offenders with psychopathic personality traits
... Perceived risk may be the main reason for referral to services and assessments are used to make important decisions about the ado- lescent, such as their suitability for open con- ditions or release. It is important to ...
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Adolescent Offenders with Mental Disorders
... A primary role of the juvenile justice sys- tem at this stage should be to identify youth with mental disorders who can be diverted from juvenile justice processing, so that they ca[r] ...
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Female adolescent sexual and nonsexual violent offenders: a comparison of the prevalence and impact of risk and protective factors for general recidivism
... unequal weights, for example calculated by factor analysis, because computed weights usually will vary from sample to sample and we examined two different samples (FSOs and FNSOs). Because the number of scale points ...
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Firearm Use by Offenders
... These standard errors may also be used to test the significance of the difference between two sample statis- tics by pooling the standard errors of the two sample estimates. For example, the standard error of the ...
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Deconstructing Offenders' Narratives
... To examine if the thematic structure of the LAAF variables demonstrates archetypal themes the SSA-I plots from the incarcerated offenders’ film and SE narratives, from chapter 6, are also examined in the current ...
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The Management of Sex Offenders
... Sex Offenders Act 2001 granted the right to separate legal representation to complainants in serious sexual offence cases where the defence seeks leave to adduce evidence or cross-examine about the complainant's ...
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Defending Begging Offenders
... The act of begging constitutes a criminal offence in most Australian States and Territories including Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, Tasmania and the Northern Territory with penalties ranging ...
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Sex Offenses and Offenders
... Violent sex offenders with sin- gle victims reported that two- thirds of their victims had been under the age of 18 (figures 25 and 26). About 4 in 10 rapists reported their victim had been a child, and 8 out of ...
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Dealing with Young Offenders
... The ray of hope lays in the fact that Fiji as a party to the CRC has been making attempts at re-examining our juvenile justice system. The United Nations Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) has been very instrumental in ...
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Characteristics associated with repeat homicide offenders relative to single homicide offenders. An explorative study on a 35-year sample of homicide offenders in the Netherlands
... ). Depending on the level of premeditation and the amount of violations and proof, both perpetrators of murder and manslaughter can be sentenced for life in the Netherlands. However, when there are no other violations or ...
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Repeat Alcohol Offenders:
... education and rehabilitation after conviction, following an assessment and referral for all (first and repeat) drinking and driving offenders. Drivers are assigned to one of three opti[r] ...
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