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Delinquent Networks [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2009
Delinquents are embedded in a network of relationships. Social ties among delinquents are modeled by means of a graph where delinquents compete for a booty and benefit from local interactions with their neighbors. Each delinquent decides in a non-cooperative way how much delinquency effort he will exert.
Ballester, Coralio   +2 more
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Streetlife and Delinquency

The British Journal of Sociology, 1992
The correlation between class and delinquency often observed in areal studies and assumed in prominent sociological theories is elusive in studies of individuals commonly used to test these theories. A restricted conceptualization of class in terms of parental origins and the concentration of self-report survey designs on adolescents in school have ...
J, Hagan, B, McCarthy
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Delinquency and Amphetamines

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1971
In a survey of 612 young people remanded in the London area during 1964, positive urine tests were found for amphetamine for 18 per cent of the 558 boys and 16 per cent of the 54 girls examined (Scott and Willcox, 1965). This paper presents the findings of a similar type of survey carried out in the same remand homes five years later.
P D, Scott, M, Buckell
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The Effects of Financial Literacy Overconfidence on the Mortgage Delinquency of US Households

Journal of Consumer Affairs, 2019
This study investigated the effect of objective and subjective financial literacy on mortgage payment delinquency using the 2015 National Financial Capability Study dataset.
K. Kim, Jonghee Lee, Sherman D. Hanna
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Delinquency and the Amphetamines

British Journal of Psychiatry, 1965
The drug-taking behaviour of young people is causing great concern. The topic has been discussed for some years in the national newspapers and in the medical journals, and early last year the Government decided to take action.
P D, Scott, D R, Willcox
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Delinquency in children

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 1989
Delinquency among children is not a problem only in Western countries. Psychosocial analysis of inmates of an approved school revealed that broken home was the reason for the emotional stress which triggered antisocial behaviour. Children want to be with their parents inspite of the injustice done to them.
N, Ganga   +2 more
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Delinquency and the Pediatrician

Pediatrics In Review, 1988
Adolescents may be predisposed to delinquency by a double-jeopardy situation of clustering of risk factors in physical health (eg, perinatal or nervous system trauma, naurodevelopmental or cognitive dysfunction, neglected health problems) and the environment (eg, poverty, disordered family dynamics, poor education).
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Delinquency and Hyperactivity

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 1979
Thirty-one delinquent children who were also hyperactive were compared with 35 delinquents who were not hyperactive on data gathered by parental interviews and record searches primarily of school and pregnancy and birth records. The hyperactive delinquents had a lower birth weight than their brothers and than nonhyperactive delinquents and possibly ...
D R, Offord   +3 more
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Delinquency and Crime

Journal of Mental Science, 1944
The modern usage of the word “delinquency” lacks precision, and some writers use it to connote all types of offences, however serious, and whatever the age of the offender, whilst others restrict its use to minor offences committed by children and young persons.
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