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Date: November 22, 2024 Fri
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Results for life-course trajectories
2 results foundAuthor: Day, David M. Title: Criminal Trajectories of Two Subsamples of Adjudicated Ontario Youths Summary: This report presents the findings of three studies conducted on two subsamples of adjudicated Ontario youth. The objective of the studies was twofold: (1) to examine the criminal trajectories of the two subsamples over several follow-up periods; and (2) to identify childhood predictors and adolescent correlates of trajectory group membership. This research is grounded in a number of theoretical, empirical, and statistical advances made over the past 15 years that have contributed to a more fine-grained and comprehensive understanding of the onset, maintenance, and desistance of criminal activity over the life course. These advances include publication of the seminal two-volume work on criminal careers (Blumstein, Cohen, Roth, & Visher 1986); emergence of new theoretical models of antisocial and criminal behaviour framed within a development and life course (DLC) perspective (Farrington, 2003, 2005); accumulation of findings in risk factor research (Farrington, 2007); and the advent of group-based trajectory analysis for examining longitudinal data (Nagin, 2005). There is now a greater understanding of the role and impact of key risk factors in the lives of individuals on the development of antisocial and criminal behaviour. These risk factors, falling into five life domains (i.e., individual, family, peer, school, and community), include early onset antisocial behaviour, attention problems, and substance use, as well as child maltreatment, broken home and family transitions, parental criminality, poor academic achievement, and delinquent peer association. As well, new theoretical approaches, including cascade models (Masten & Cicchetti, 2010) that are framed within a development and life course perspective have posited testable hypotheses about the complex transactions and interactions among risk factors across multiple levels and systems within and outside the individual. However, more research is needed to further develop and test these models. As well, more research is needed to understand the role and impact of protective and promotive factors on the development of adaptive and maladaptive outcomes (Loeber, Farrington, Stouthamer-Loeber, & White, 2008; Löesel & Bender, 2003). Details: Ottawa: National crime Prevention Centre, Public Safety Canada, 2012. 45p. Source: Internet Resource: Research Report: 2012-1: Accessed August 10, 2012 at: https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/djdctd-ntr-yth/djdctd-ntr-yth-eng.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Canada URL: https://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/cnt/rsrcs/pblctns/djdctd-ntr-yth/djdctd-ntr-yth-eng.pdf Shelf Number: 125963 Keywords: Juvenile Offenders (Canada)Juvenile to Adult Criminal CareersLife-Course Trajectories |
Author: O'Malley, Lisa Title: Prevention practice : Learning from youth crime prevention activity teams in eight youth offending teams during 2008/09 and 2009/10 Summary: Youth crime prevention policy is based on the assumption that it is possible to change the life-course trajectories of young people by reducing risk factors that may lead to offending behaviour and building on protective factors that might help prevent offending. The purpose of the current study was to examine the characteristics and needs of a cohort of young people who completed youth crime prevention programmes, and to look at how these programmes were delivered in some localities. The study consisted of two components: 1. a small number of interviews - these were conducted with a key member of staff within seven of the eight case study youth offending teams (YOTs) 2. collection and analysis of YOT cohort administrative data from prevention programmes. These data included Onset1 risk of future offending assessment scores, key demographic characteristics and records of offences committed during the year before and the year after involvement in a prevention programme. A case study approach was taken, involving a purposively selected sample of eight YOTs operating in areas within England and Wales that had been providing youth crime prevention programmes, and which had received some funding from the Youth Justice Board for England and Wales (YJB). Overall, data were obtained for a cohort of 934 young people engaged in prevention programmes in 2008/09 and 2009/10. Data were aggregated across the eight YOTs to create a single cohort of young people. As the largest study to date looking specifically at Onset scores of young people involved in prevention programmes, this report offers practitioners in the youth justice field a useful insight into the characteristics and needs of young people completing prevention interventions, and how these programmes were delivered. Details: London: Youth Justice Board for England and Wales, 2014. 41p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 30, 2016 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/396062/prevention-practice-learning.pdf Year: 2014 Country: United Kingdom URL: https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/396062/prevention-practice-learning.pdf Shelf Number: 138479 Keywords: At-Risk YouthCrime PreventionDelinquency PreventionJuvenile DelinquencyLife-Course Trajectories |