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Johnson, Kaprea F. – Journal of Employment Counseling, 2013
Ex-offenders, persons with criminal and limited job histories, are being released into communities every year. Social cognitive career theory (SCCT) focuses on several cognitive-person variables and on the interaction effect with the environment. Conceptually, the author views the integration of SCCT and the self-determination theory as a…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Behavior Change, Career Development, Career Counseling
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Macdonald, Stephen J. – Disability & Society, 2012
Since the 1960s, studies in the psycho-sciences have implied that people with dyslexia are at increased risk of engaging in criminal behaviours. There are two common themes that have emerged from this research. Firstly, studies that employ a psycho-medical model imply that the correlation between dyslexia and crime is embedded within neurological…
Descriptors: Crime, Dyslexia, Criminals, Physiology
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Sitzer, Peter; Heitmeyer, Wilhelm – New Directions for Youth Development, 2008
What are the preconditions for right-wing extremist violence among German youths? For several years, the rate of this violence has been increasing in Germany, and the same can be observed for right-wing extremist orientations characterized by the coming together of ideologies of unequal worth and the acceptance of violence as a mode of action. And…
Descriptors: Ideology, Models, Foreign Countries, Political Attitudes