Purpose This study examined the effectiveness of a combined phonological and semantic
intervention for children with specific language impairment who had word-finding difficulties …

Race and ethnic difference in delinquency are examined using the National Longitudinal
Study of Adolescent Health. We argue that crime theories that attempt to explain race and …

States that wish to receive federal financial support through the Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention Act for their juvenile justice systems are mandated to address …

This research provides a test of general strain theory examining the relevance of strain
recency, the role of victimization history for predicting anger development, and the relevance …

This report summarizes and assesses the state of knowledge about children and youth with
disabilities who are at risk of delinquency and involvement in, or who have already entered …

Analyses of the National Crime Victimization Survey and Supplemental Homicide Reports
show that southern whites are much more likely than northern whites to be victims of gun …

Crime and Racial Constructions: Cultural Misinformation about African Americans in Media
and Academia focuses on how film images of dangerous, hedonistic blacks have assumed …

The previous chapter (Bishop 2005) makes it clear that minority youth are overrepresented
in the juvenile justice system, and small differences in the handling of cases at early stages …

Four-hundred and eight 14 to 19-year-old adolescents in grades 9 through 12 participated in
this study. The Adolescent Anger Rating Scale was used to assess differences in expressed …

Past research has identified attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) as a risk factor for
engagement in violent offending. Despite the link between the disorder and violent …