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Petitclerc, Amelie; Gatti, Uberto; Vitaro, Frank; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2013
Background: The juvenile justice system's interventions are expected to help reduce recidivism. However, previous studies suggest that official processing in juvenile court fails to reduce adolescents' criminal behavior in the following year. Longer term effects have not yet been investigated with a rigorous method. This study used propensity…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adolescents, Crime, Delinquency
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van Lier, Pol A. C.; Vitaro, Frank; Barker, Edward D.; Koot, Hans M.; Tremblay, Richard E. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2009
Differences in developmental trajectories of physical violence, vandalism, theft, and alcohol-drug use from ages 10 to 15 were studied. For females and for males, three trajectories of theft and of alcohol-drug use increased from 10 years to 15 years, while only the high trajectory of vandalism increased from ten to 14. All trajectories of…
Descriptors: Violence, Vandalism, Females, Drug Abuse