Adolescent Reputations and Risk Developmental Trajectories to Delinq
The news of teenagers and even younger children committing ever more serious and violent crimes continues to shock and baffle. The escalating psychological and social toll of youth crime is being paid by all – from victims to offenders to parents and sibl
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Adolescent Reputations and Risk Developmental Trajectories to Delinquency
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Annemaree Carroll The University of Queensland Brisbane, Australia [email protected]
Stephen Houghton University of Westem Australia Perth, Australia [email protected]
Kevin Durkin University of Strathclyde Glasgow United Kingdom [email protected]
John A. Hattie University of Auckland New Zealand [email protected]
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Preface
Every society experiences problems with youth crime. Indeed, most crime is committed by the young. Typically (though not invariably), offending behavior is time-limited: it occurs during adolescence and declines or disappears thereafter (Moffitt, 1993, Moffitt, Caspi, Dickson, Silva, & Stanton, 1996). The costs of this relatively brief but disturbingly frequent foray are enormous when calculated in terms of lost or damaged property, violated homes, despoiled environments, and physical injuries to victims. The costs are enormous also in terms of the enduring harm to the perpetrators themselves: their young lives can be devastated by dangerous levels of substance use, by engagement in mutually destructive violence, by reckless behavior in the streets or on the roads, by acquiring records that will severely compromise their prospects of ever gaining mainstream employment, and, in some cases, by commitment to institutions where they will be brutalized an
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