School delinquency in public elementary, middle, and high schools has decreased in recent years, but is still a major issue that has negative mental health and academic implications for adolescents. Although research has focused on both individual-level and school-level explanations of school delinquency, it is not yet clear which macro-level…

Parenting style has been extensively analyzed as a contributor to juvenile delinquency in the criminological literature, but no research to date has assessed the prevalence of parenting style changes during adolescence or the influence of such parenting style changes on juvenile delinquency. Drawing from the life course theory, the results show…

What is the cause of crime? One can find answers in many places: in Genesis, in the plays of Sophocles and Shakespeare, in Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" and "Brothers Karamazov." The many answers include impiety, appetite, rage, and even the lure of transgression itself. For many, religious and poetic insights still offer the most…

This article examines the well-documented relationship between early initiation or onset of criminal behavior and a heightened risk of involvement in offending. Previous research examining this question conducted by Nagin and Farrington ("Criminology" 30:235-260, 1992a; "Criminology" 30:501-523, 1992b) used data from the…

Translates the principles of Psychology of Mind (Principles of Thought, Separate Realities, Levels of Consciousness, and Feelings and Emotions) into a neocognitive model of crime. Shows these four principles connect in an exact manner the variables of thought, perception, motivation, emotion, and behavior of all delinquent and criminal offenders.…

Most dominant theories of crime and criminality underscore the saliency of the family in the etiology of offending behaviors. Recently, a small pool of research has suggested that elements of the family, especially parents, do not have a lasting impact on children. This line of inquiry argues that once the effects that the child has on the family…

Security personnel can help administrators develop ways to combat the ill effects crime has on education programs. (Author)

Criminosynthesis theory includes internal inhibition as one of six factors relating to criminal behavior. An investigator constructed measure of internal inhibition found significantly less internal inhibition among four of five samples of incarcerated convicted criminals than among two samples of male and female college students. (DB)

Researchers usually explain individual offending in terms of background factors like low self-control and association with delinquent peers. Such factors reflect the routine or typical aspects of the individual's life over an extended period of time and they influence the individual's predisposition for crime. Researchers also sometimes explain…

This report presents a comparison of characteristics of youth authority wards committed from 1975 to 1984 in California. Data for first commitments is offered for four offense categories: (1) violent offenses; (2) property offenses; (3) narcotic and drug offenses; and (4) other offenses. Major shifts in characteristics are highlighted at the…

This document analyzes the sentencing of young adult defendants in comparison with older adult and younger juvenile offenders, and disputes prior research which held that young adults received more lenient sentencing, perhaps because of the restrictions on disclosing juvenile delinquency histories. The document presents data from samples of young…

Minnesota's Community Corrections Act, which became law in 1973, is examined in detail. Its development, fundamental precepts, and initial results are included. (Author)

Research supported by a Ford Foundation grant.

Article discusses the need for federal legislation to provide the funds to help solve the problem of crime in public schools. (GB)

Elaborates the theoretical model of Relative Involvement. Major emphasis is devoted to the analytical levels of the self, the social, and the subcultural levels of causality. Explores ego-attitudes and relative involvements of ego-attitudes. Measurements of relative degrees of ego-involvements are explained through the Method of Ordered…