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Date: April 26, 2024 Fri
Time: 12:41 pm
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2 results foundAuthor: Steinberg, Laurence Title: Psychosocial Maturity and Desistance From Crime in a Sample of Serious Juvenile Offenders Summary: The Pathways to Desistance study followed more than 1,300 serious juvenile offenders for 7 years after their conviction. In this bulletin, the authors present key findings on the link between psychosocial maturity and desistance from crime in the males in the Pathways sample as they transition from mid-adolescence to early adulthood (ages 14-25): - Recent research indicates that youth experience protracted maturation, into their mid-twenties, of brain systems responsible for self-regulation. This has stimulated interest in measuring young offenders' psychosocial maturity into early adulthood. - Youth whose antisocial behavior persisted into early adulthood were found to have lower levels of psychosocial maturity in adolescence and deficits in their development of maturity (i.e., arrested development) compared with other antisocial youth. - The vast majority of juvenile offenders, even those who commit serious crimes, grow out of antisocial activity as they transition to adulthood. Most juvenile offending is, in fact, limited to adolescence. - This study suggests that the process of maturing out of crime is linked to the process of maturing more generally, including the development of impulse control and future orientation. Details: Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2015. 12p. Source: Internet Resource: OJJDP Juvenile Justice Bulletin: Accessed March 16, 2015 at: http://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/248391.pdf Year: 2015 Country: United States URL: http://www.ojjdp.gov/pubs/248391.pdf Shelf Number: 134941 Keywords: AdolescenceDesistanceJuvenile Offenders (U.S.)Juvenile to Adult Criminal CareersPsychosocial Maturity |
Author: Kleinepier, Tom Title: The Temporal Dynamics of Neighborhood Disadvantage in Childhood and Subsequent Problem Behavior in Adolescence Summary: Abstract Research on neighborhood effects has increasingly focused on how long children have lived in a deprived neighborhood during childhood (duration), but has typically ignored when in childhood the exposure occurred (timing) and whether neighborhood circumstances were improving or deteriorating (sequencing). In this article, the authors applied sequence analysis to simultaneously capture children's duration, timing, and sequencing of exposure to neighborhood (dis)advantage in childhood. Logistic regression analysis was subsequently used to test how different patterns of exposure are related to teenage parenthood, school dropout, and delinquent behavior. Using register data from the Netherlands, an entire cohort was followed from birth in 1995 up until age 19 in 2014 (N = 168,645, 48.8 percent females, 83.2 percent native Dutch). Compared to children who had lived in a deprived neighborhood throughout childhood, children who were exposed to neighborhood deprivation only during adolescence were found to be equally likely to become a teenage parent and were even more likely to drop out of school. Unexpectedly, children who had lived in an affluent neighborhood throughout childhood were most likely to engage in delinquent behavior. Possible explanations and implications are discussed. Details: Bonn, Germany: Institute for Labor Economics, 2018. 30p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 10, 2019 at: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29961241 Year: 2018 Country: Netherlands URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6061086/ Shelf Number: 154126 Keywords: Adolescence Childhood Neighborhood effectsNetherlands Problem Behavior School DropoutSequence Analysis Temporal Dynamics |