For over 30 years juvenile justice agencies have relied on risk assessments to guide
decisions regarding diversion, case management, supervision, and placement practices …

General Strain Theory (GST) predicts that being a victim of ethnically-based discrimination
will raise the risk of violent offending. Data from a national sample of 631 Latino students are …

Based on a routine activities approach to understanding crime, this research begins with the
hypothesis that offenders with varying levels of educational attainment will commit different …

Objective: This investigation examined patterns of heavy drinking among Black and White
young adults from a person-centered perspective and linked family and individual factors in …

Empirical and conceptual literature in the United States and Western Europe provides robust
evidence of victimization as a risk factor for juvenile offending and parental monitoring as a …

This chapter focuses on Ronald L. Akers' social structure and social learning (SSSL) model
of delinquency and addresses the gap by developing a more explicit conceptual and …

Purpose While prior research has established that traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a risk factor
for violent offending, there is little understanding of mechanisms that may underpin this …

Multisystemic Therapy (MST) is an evidence-based treatment for high-risk youth and their
families shown to reduce subsequent delinquent activity. This study investigated (a) rearrest …

Crime occurs in all societies and researchers all over the world have sought to identify the
antecedents of deviant behavior. Two studies of young adults, one in the United States and …

Disproportionate minority contact (DMC) in the US juvenile justice system persists despite
substantial efforts to reduce it. The juvenile justice system is comprised of a series of …