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Social Problems, 1969
Religious training is assumed to prevent delinquency by promoting the development of moral values, acceptance of conventional authority, and belief in the existence of supernatural sanctions. The relations between church attendance and these presumed consequences are examined.
Rodney Stark, Travis Hirschi
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Religious training is assumed to prevent delinquency by promoting the development of moral values, acceptance of conventional authority, and belief in the existence of supernatural sanctions. The relations between church attendance and these presumed consequences are examined.
Rodney Stark, Travis Hirschi
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Early predictors of male delinquency: a review.
Psychological bulletin, 1983A systematic review is presented of prediction studies on delinquency. The main aim is to identify etiological variables for delinquency that, in different studies and across different populations, show good predictive validity.
R. Loeber, T. Dishion
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Delinquency and the Amphetamines
British Journal of Psychiatry, 1965The 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.
D. R. C. Willcox, P. D. Scott
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American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1972
Data on self-re ported delinquent behavior of American adolescents are employed to test the hypothesis that such behavior is invoked as a defense against a derogated self-image. The hypothesis specifies one source of threat to self-esteem and its impact on both conscious and unconscious images of the self.
Gold, Martin, Mann, David W.
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Data on self-re ported delinquent behavior of American adolescents are employed to test the hypothesis that such behavior is invoked as a defense against a derogated self-image. The hypothesis specifies one source of threat to self-esteem and its impact on both conscious and unconscious images of the self.
Gold, Martin, Mann, David W.
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, 2016
Studies that test general strain theory in China have primarily focused on poor treatments by others, and few have assessed the influences of stressor events other than negative treatments as antecedents of delinquency.
Ruth X. Liu
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Studies that test general strain theory in China have primarily focused on poor treatments by others, and few have assessed the influences of stressor events other than negative treatments as antecedents of delinquency.
Ruth X. Liu
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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, Monamy Buckell
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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, Monamy Buckell
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Delinquency and the Pediatrician
Pediatrics In Review, 1988Adolescents 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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From Delinquent Behavior to Official Delinquency
Social Problems, 1972A conceptual distinction is drawn between delinquent behavior and official delinquency (apprehended and recorded delinquent behavior). Data from a national sample of 13- to 16-year old boys and girls are examined for empirical evidence of this conceptual distinction.
Martin Gold, Jay R. Williams
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, 1966
The first C. Wright Mills Award-winning book, Delinquency and Drift has become a recognized classic in the fields of criminology and social problems. In it, Matza argues persuasively that delinquent thought and delinquent action are distorted reflections
David Matza
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The first C. Wright Mills Award-winning book, Delinquency and Drift has become a recognized classic in the fields of criminology and social problems. In it, Matza argues persuasively that delinquent thought and delinquent action are distorted reflections
David Matza
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