The evaluation of a juvenile diversion program by Quay and Love (1977) is criticized for employing follow-up periods of differing durations. A second article by Quay and Love responds to Mrad's suggestion that the experimental effect was due to a greater post-program exposure time for the control group. (LPG)

Although subjective evaluations of a program designed to prevent delinquency by those who received its benefits would suggest that the intervention had been helpful, comparisons between the treatment and control groups indicate that the program had negative side effects. (Author/AM)

This study examined value differences of violent and nonviolent youthful offenders. Previous research indicated that high rates of violent crime were related to the subculture of violence hypothesis. The data suggested that value systems of violent and nonviolent youthful offenders were basically the same. (Author)

The findings of this survey contradict all current theories about the relationship between social class and criminality. (Author)

Several general findings emerged: (a) a combination of typological pattern and magnitude of dimensional scores rather than either factor alone was a better predictor of future recidivism, and (b) among milder delinquent types, race may be operating as a bias in determining incarceration. (Author)

The study compared the responses of 48 retarded and 48 normal Ss (ages 11 to 14) in a series of eight hypothetical temptation to steal dilemmas. The results indicated that normal Ss resisted significantly more often than retarded Ss, and that the normal Ss generated significantly more legitimate acquisition responses than retarded Ss. (Author)

Notes that because black youth tend to be treated by persons who hold negative attitudes about their values and life-styles, they are denied access to equal justice and human dignity from the law. (Author)

Examines the victimizing behaviors of incarcerated juvenile and young offenders. It was found that 50.9% of all respondents reported victimizing others, with verbal assaults and threats being the most common form of such behaviors. Furthermore, staff-identified "victimizers" were significantly more likely to report victimizing behavior…

A sample of 104 juvenile offenders completed the Gates-McGinitie Reading Test, Stanford Test of Academic Skills, and Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised. Delinquent youth exhibited deficient academic skills, low average IQs, low socioeconomic status, and disruptive behavior charges. (SK)

Used data on attitudes toward deviance during adolescence to illustrate assessment of psychometric properties of instrument for studying change, compare adequacy of linear and curvilinear growth models, control for time invariant and time-varying covariates, and link overlapping data cohorts. Findings suggest that prodeviant attitudes increased…

The hypothesis tested in this study was that the presence of enuresis and cruelty to animals in juvenile firesetters would be significantly related to recidivistic firesetting. No relationship was found between firesetting recidivism and enuresis. However, juveniles who were identified as being cruel to animals were more likely to engage in…

In this paper a theoretical framework is presented in an attempt to find an answer to the question of why some juveniles display sexually abusive behaviour and others do not. Until recently, this question has been approached mainly in terms of the presence of psychiatric illness, deviant sexual interests and/or impaired psychosocial development.…