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Skiba, Russell J.; Arredondo, Mariella I.; Williams, Natasha T. – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2014
The term and construct "school-to-prison" pipeline has been widely used by advocates, researchers, and policymakers to describe the relationship between school disciplinary practices and increased risk of juvenile justice contact. It has been unclear whether the construct is a useful heuristic or a descriptor of empirically validated…
Descriptors: At Risk Students, Correctional Institutions, Institutionalized Persons, Discipline
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Johnson, Kristin; Lanza-Kaduce, Lonn; Woolard, Jennifer – Crime & Delinquency, 2011
These data merge correctional histories with official state and courthouse information for a sample of teenage offenders, some of whom had been transferred to the adult system. Previous research indicated that transfer aggravates recidivism after the age of 18. The correctional data allow the examination of the relationship between sanctions and…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Sanctions, Delinquency, Juvenile Justice
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Khurana, Atika; Cooksey, Elizabeth C.; Gavazzi, Stephen M. – Psychology of Women Quarterly, 2011
The authors examined ecological risk factors associated with teen pregnancy with a sample of 1,190 court-involved female juvenile offenders between 11 and 18 years of age. Data were obtained from five Midwestern juvenile county courts using a recently developed youth risk assessment instrument called the global risk assessment device (GRAD). In…
Descriptors: Substance Abuse, Intervention, Delinquency, Courts
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Beaver, Kevin M.; DeLisi, Matt; Wright, John Paul; Vaughn, Michael G. – Journal of Adolescent Research, 2009
Behavioral genetic research has revealed that biogenic factors play a role in the development of antisocial behaviors. Much of this research has also explicated the way in which the environment and genes may combine to create different phenotypes. The authors draw heavily from this literature and use data from the National Longitudinal Study of…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Peer Influence, Genetics, Antisocial Behavior
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Carroll, Annemaree; Houghton, Steve; Khan, Umneea; Tan, Carol – Educational Psychology, 2008
This research investigated differences in delinquent activities and the reputational orientations of at-risk and not-at-risk male and female adolescents. Initially, we sought to establish that adolescent males and females differed in these respects. This was found to be the case: males (n = 722) scored significantly higher than females (n = 738)…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Reputation, Multivariate Analysis, Adolescents
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van Dam, Coleta; De Bruyn, Eric E. J.; Janssens, Jan M. A. M. – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2007
This study explores the relationship between PEN profiles, delinquency, and recidivism in young offenders. According to Eysenck, personality is based on three basic Dimensions: Psychoticism, Extraversion, and Neuroticism (PEN-model). Eysenck states that delinquents score high on all three dimensions. A group of young male offenders in a juvenile…
Descriptors: Recidivism, Delinquency, Personality, Multivariate Analysis