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1 results foundAuthor: McAra, Lesley Title: Truancy, School Exclusion and Substance Misuse Summary: The purpose of this paper is to explore the relationship between truancy, school exclusion and substance misuse. It draws on the findings of the Edinburgh Study of Youth Transi-tions and Crime (the Edinburgh Study), a longitudinal research programme exploring pathways into and out of offending for a cohort of around 4,300 young people who started secondary school in the City of Edinburgh in 1998. The key findings of the study are as follows: Truants have a significantly higher incidence of illegal drug use, underage drinking and smoking than non-truanting pupils and rates of substance misuse increase over time. Long-term truants exhibit a higher incidence of all forms of substance misuse in compari-son with other categories of truant. Illegal drug use and smoking significantly predict truancy after controlling for a range of other explanatory variables, including school experience, victimisation, parenting and a range of personality characteristics such as self esteem and impulsivity. Pupils who have been excluded from school report a significantly higher incidence of il-legal drug use, underage drinking and smoking than their non-excluded counterparts. Substance misuse is less strongly associated with exclusion than it is for truancy. Illegal drug use is only weakly predictive of exclusion after controlling for other explanatory variables, including school experience and anti-social behaviour. Underage drinking and smoking are not significant predictors. Early intervention targeting health risk behaviours may have some part to play in dimin-ishing truancy rates. However substance misuse is only one part of a complex set of be-haviours and adverse circumstances associated with both truancy and exclusion. Policy needs to take greater cognizance of sex differences in truancy and exclusion. While early truanting is predominantly a male activity, by second year of secondary edu-cation girls form the majority of truants (including persistent truants). By contrast boys form the overwhelming majority of excluded pupils at all sweeps of the study. Details: Edinburgh, Scotland: Centre for Law and Society, The University of Edinburgh, 2004. 30p. Source: The Edinburgh Study of Youth Transitions and Crime, Number 4: Internet Resource: Accessed July 18, 2012 at http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/esytc/findings/digest4.pdf Year: 2004 Country: United Kingdom URL: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/cls/esytc/findings/digest4.pdf Shelf Number: 102905 Keywords: School Exclusions (Scotland)Substance Abuse (Scotland)Truancy (Scotland) |