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Loughran, Thomas A.; Brame, Robert; Fagan, Jeffrey; Piquero, Alex R.; Mulvey, Edward P.; Schubert, Carol A. – Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 2015
How and why do many serious adolescent offenders stop offending while others continue to commit crimes? The Pathways to Desistance study, a multidisciplinary investigation that attempts to answer this question, followed more than 1,300 serious juvenile offenders for 7 years after their conviction. In this bulletin, the authors investigate the link…
Descriptors: At Risk Persons, Delinquency, Correlation, Sanctions
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Piquero, Alex R.; Connell, Nadine M.; Piquero, Nicole Leeper; Farrington, David P.; Jennings, Wesley G. – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
The perpetration of bullying is a significant issue among researchers, policymakers, and the general public. Although researchers have examined the link between bullying and subsequent antisocial behavior, data and methodological limitations have hampered firm conclusions. This study uses longitudinal data from 411 males in the Cambridge Study in…
Descriptors: Risk, Adolescents, Bullying, Males
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Piquero, Alex R.; Monahan, Kathryn C.; Glasheen, Cristie; Schubert, Carol A.; Mulvey, Edward P. – Crime & Delinquency, 2013
Much criminological research has used longitudinal data to assess change in offending over time. An important feature of some data sources is that they contain cross-sections of different aged individuals followed over successive time periods, thereby potentially conflating age and time. This article compares the substantive conclusions about the…
Descriptors: Crime, Longitudinal Studies, Risk, Regression (Statistics)
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Higgins, George E.; Piquero, Nicole L.; Piquero, Alex R. – Youth & Society, 2011
The development of general strain theory (GST) has led to a renewed focus on the influence of negative life experiences on antisocial behavior. Although a number of studies have generated an impressive array of support for the theory, several avenues remain open for research. In this article, we examine how a specific noxious stimuli, peer…
Descriptors: Delinquency, Antisocial Behavior, Peer Relationship, Rejection (Psychology)
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Shulman, Elizabeth P.; Cauffman, Elizabeth; Piquero, Alex R.; Fagan, Jeffrey – Developmental Psychology, 2011
The present study investigates the relation between moral disengagement--one's willingness to conditionally endorse transgressive behavior--and ongoing offending in a sample of adolescent male felony offenders (N = 1,169). In addition, the study attempts to rule out callous-unemotional traits as a third variable responsible for observed…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Antisocial Behavior, Delinquency, Moral Values
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Sweeten, Gary; Piquero, Alex R.; Steinberg, Laurence – Journal of Youth and Adolescence, 2013
Age is one of the most robust correlates of criminal behavior. Yet, explanations for this relationship are varied and conflicting. Developmental theories point to a multitude of sociological, psychological, and biological changes that occur during adolescence and adulthood. One prominent criminological perspective outlined by Gottfredson and…
Descriptors: Self Control, Socialization, Rewards, Psychology