Crime and Delinquency
The Role of the Family in Crime and Delinquency: Evidence from Prior Quantitative Reviews
... for delinquency and crime prevention ...and crime; (4) meta-analyses of family-based interventions; and (5) broader reviews that included a breakdown for family-based ...of delinquency and the ...
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AND JUSTICE. Differential Treatment of Youth of Color in the Justice System JANUARY 2007 NATIONAL COUNCIL ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY
... Unfortunately, research in this area specific to Latino youth is scant. Although there is evidence of disproportionate representation of Latinos in the juvenile justice system, gaps and inconsistencies in the collection ...
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This report was funded by grants from the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency. The views and opinions presented are those of the authors
... reduce delinquency without creating a financial burden to taxpayers – or better yet providing fiscal benefits to ...fund crime prevention programs that will at least “pay for themselves” while delivering ...
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Towards an Integrative Theory of Crime and Delinquency: Re-conceptualizing the Farrington Theory
... commit crime is structured not driven by the distribution of legitimate means (Bernard, ...to delinquency but he fails to acknowledge that these goals are culturally defined, and commonly accepted among ...
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Keywords: religion, religiosity, faith-based, crime, delinquency, prevention, policy formation
... Preliminary research findings also indicate that religious involvement may have a cumulative effect throughout adolescence and thus may significantly lessen the risk of later adult criminality (Jang and Johnson 2001; ...
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Commissioned by the Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Committee of the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency
... regarding delinquency, “Consistent with the protection of the public ...on crime, the way in which that interest was best served focused primarily on the rehabilitation needs of the young ...of crime ...
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An Investigation of Public Perceptions of Youth Crime and Juvenile Delinquency in Embakasi Sub-county in Nairobi County, Kenya
... The study established that children who received adequate parental supervision were less likely to engage in criminal activities. Dysfunctional family settings characterized by conflict, inadequate parental control, weak ...
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Understanding the associations between psychosocial factors and severity of crime in juvenile delinquency: a cross-sectional study
... Juvenile delinquency is a serious and common ...for delinquency among youths and on the implications of childhood mental illness on child ...of crime severity among delinquent youths in Turkey is ...
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The impact of ADHD and conduct disorder in childhood on adult delinquency: A 30 years follow up study using official crime records
... the crime rates for children with ADHD seemed to be elevated compared to a crude estimate in the general ...subsequent delinquency, should strengthen the assumption that there is no direct asso- ciation ...
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LONG-TERM EFFECTS OF THE MOVING TO OPPORTUNITY RESIDENTIAL- MOBILITY EXPERIMENT ON CRIME AND DELINQUENCY
... The distribution of behavioral outcomes is quite different for boys versus girls. At baseline, parents were more likely to report behavioral and emotional issues for boys than for girls. Nearly 20% of boys (compared with ...
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Conventional and Special Crime and Delinquency Rates
... The negligible beta coefficients for the perceived certainty of arrest, median seriousness of offenses, schools, and kinds of offenses becomes understandable once it is recognized that s[r] ...
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Disadvantaged Neighborhoods and Anger: Implications for Community-Level Theories of Crime and Delinquency
... 2. Since residents tend to disagree about the exact boundaries of their neighborhoods, measuring neighborhood units is problematic (see Furstenberg et al. 1999). Because of this and als[r] ...
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Value of Technical Police Training in the Prevention of Crime and Delinquency
... Among these supplementary training programs may be mentioned the local and regional institutes sponsored by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and by some state vocational education age[r] ...
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Evaluation Research in Crime and Delinquency: A Reappraisal
... preventive treatment" is defined as broadly as possible, to include any and all programs that seek to achieve some behavioral change in offenders or potential offenders, whether through [r] ...
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A Socio Psychological Theory of Crime and Delinquency: A Contribution to Etiology
... It is argued here that if and when the institutions of crime control are ineffective, as they too often are, the decrepit machinery of criminal justice administration is per se a contrib[r] ...
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Three Essays on Crime and Delinquency: Immigration, Alcohol, and Probation
... and crime variation provides mixed ...the crime-increasing effect of the repeal was unique to New Mexico and that the other sample states that repealed their laws did not have an increase in alcohol-related ...
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CRIME - A SPECIAL FOCUS ON JUVENILE DELINQUENCY: A CASE STUDY
... The term 'delinquency' is used to describe number of disapproved behaviours of children and youth, delinquent acts committed by juveniles include status offences like school truancy, underage smoking, repeated ...
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Scope of the Problem of Delinquency and Crime and the Contributions of Psychiatry
... 'The juvenile and adult courts, reform schools, jails and prisons and the psychiatric clinics assigned to them for personality, aptitude and classification studies, to be used for segreg[r] ...
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Prevention of Juvenile Delinquency and Crime in Austria
... The states and some large towns have declared the public boards for youth welfare to be such "competent agencies." They were usually charged by the court of chancery with the guardianshi[r] ...
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Juvenile delinquency in Angola
... of crime, what or who they thought was responsible for their offending and their reasons for believing this, and their knowledge of the war and how they thought it had affected them or their ...
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