Adolescent reputations and risk : developmental trajectories to delinquency / Annemaree Carroll [and others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carroll, Annemaree.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Advancing responsible adolescent development

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Juvenile delinquency--Psychological aspects.

Juvenile delinquency.

Juvenile delinquency--Social aspects.

Juvenile delinquents--Psychology.

Juvenile delinquents.

Juvenile Delinquency--psychology.

Adolescent Behavior--psychology.

Adolescent Development.

Peer Group.

Psychology, Adolescent.

Risk-Taking.

Medical Subjects:

Juvenile Delinquency--psychology.

Adolescent Behavior--psychology.

Adolescent Development.

Peer Group.

Psychology, Adolescent.

Risk-Taking.

Physical Description:

xvii, 208 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Springer, [2009]

Summary:

"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 siblings to teachers and to the community as a whole. Adolescent Reputations and Risk looks beyond traditional theories to examine, from a solid empirical basis, the motivation and values that make some young people choose antisocial over positive behavior, resulting in potent new insights and possible solutions to this ongoing problem." "Synthesizing 15 years of research with delinquent youth, this volume describes the volatile dynamic of child and adolescent social worlds, emphasizing reputation enhancement and goal-setting as bases underlying deviant behavior."--Jacket.

Contents:

At-risk youth : identifying, charting, and explaining the course of early involvement with crime

Reputation-enhancing goals : the theory of deliberate choice

Measuring delinquency, goals, and reputational orientations in young persons

Children at risk : initiating goals and reputations

Adolescents at risk : establishing goals and reputations

Establishing and maintaining reputations through risk-taking behavior

Early-onset life-course persistent and late-onset adolescent-limited offenders : impulsivity, peers, and social reputations

Psychopathy in children and adolescents and the fledgling psychopath hypothesis

Treatment and interventions for young persons at risk

Developmental trajectories of deviancy : looking back, moving forward.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-198) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9780387799872

0387799877

9780387799889

0387799885

OCLC:

244765606

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