To address the dropout crisis requires a better understanding of why students drop out.
Although dropouts themselves report a variety of reasons for leaving school, these reasons …

Many studies have examined the effects of neighbourhoods on educational outcomes. The
results of these studies are often conflicting, even if the same independent variables (such …

A systematic review of peer-reviewed, empirical literature published between 1990 and
2006 was undertaken to determine whether existing research could provide evidence, and a …

Objective: There is relatively little research on the childhood antecedent predictors of early-
onset alcohol use. This study examined an array of psychosocial variables assessed at age …

This review focuses on recent advancements along two lines of criminological inquiry. The
first examines how schools unintentionally influence off-campus delinquency, especially …

Written by two of the most prominent criminologists in the field, Race and Crime, 6th Edition
takes an incisive look at the intersection of race and ethnicity and the criminal justice system …

This paper examines the effects of alcohol use on high school students' quality of learning.
We estimate fixed-effects models using data from the National Longitudinal Study of …

Helping vulnerable children develop their full potential is an attractive idea with broad
common-sense appeal. However, child well-being is a broad concept, and the legislative …

The Rochester Youth Development Study began in 1986 as one of three projects in the
Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's Program of Research on the …

This qualitative study was designed to identify African American early adolescents'
subjective meanings of African American women's sexuality through an examination of …