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Shulman, Elizabeth P.; Steinberg, Laurence D.; Piquero, Alex R. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
One of the most consistent findings in developmental criminology is the "age-crime curve"--the observation that criminal behavior increases in adolescence and decreases in adulthood. Recently, Brown and Males (Justice Policy J 8:1-30, 2011) conducted an analysis of aggregate arrest, poverty, and population data from California and…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Age Differences, Crime, Males
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Elledge, L. Christian; Williford, Anne; Boulton, Aaron J.; DePaolis, Kathryn J.; Little, Todd D.; Salmivalli, Christina – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Electronic social communication has provided a new context for children to bully and harass their peers and it is clear that cyberbullying is a growing public health concern in the US and abroad. The present study examined individual and contextual predictors of cyberbullying in a sample of 16, 634 students in grades 3-5 and 7-8. Data were…
Descriptors: Public Health, Bullying, Foreign Countries, Predictor Variables
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Redmore, Carolyn D. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 1983
This article describes a follow-up and secondary analysis of ego development of two samples originally tested early in their college years and retested to constitute a longitudinal study. Resultant data are consistent with the hypothesis that ego growth occurs according to a fixed sequence of stages and suggest that rate of growth decreases with…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Correlation, Developmental Stages, Higher Education