Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-Reported and Official Estimates of Delinquency

Elliott, Delbert S.; Ageton, Suzanne S.

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“…Items were developed based on all offenses reported by the Uniform Crime Report where juvenile offense rate was greater than 1% [44]. The violent subscale of the SRD [42] used in this study presented an adequate internal consistency of α=.56 similar to prior research (e.g., α=.61) [41].…”

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Recognition of Pain as Another Deficit in Young Males with High Callous-Unemotional Traits

Wolf

Centifanti

2013

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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The nal publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10578-013-0412-8. Additional information:Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. Method ParticipantsBoys attending alternative short stay schools in Lancashire were recruited for participation in this study. Such alternative schooling was provided for youth who were permanently or temporarily expelled from their main stream school because of continuous disruptive behaviour. Three schools were contacted about this study for purpose of recruitment and all three agreed to take part. Head teachers of all three short stay schools gave their consent in loco parentis as target age range of youth was 11 to 16 years of age. In addition, and because most participants were still under the age of 16, information on the study was sent to the parents who then had a period of two weeks when they could opt out of the study. None of the parents objected, so each boy within the age range was approached individually by school staff to ask for their assent. In total, 52 boys were asked to participate across the three schools and 50 boys (98%) between the age of 11 to 16 (mean age=14.3; SD=1.2) agreed to participate. . In all samples, a similar factor-structure emerged with three factors (e.g., Uncaring, Callousness, Unemotional) loading on a higher-order CU dimension. Importantly, the total scores proved to be internally consistent in these samples (coefficient alpha .77 to .89) and they were related to antisocial behaviour, aggression, delinquency, various personality dimensions, and psychophysiological measures of emotional reactivity in ways consistent with past research on CU traits. The items were summed, excluding items 2 and 10. Total scores on the ICU could range between 0 and 66 with higher scores reflecting greater levels of CU traits. Self-report of Violent Delinquency. Participants reported on their violentdelinquency using eight items from the Self-Report of Delinquency Scale (SRD) [42].Participants were required to answer 'yes' (1) or 'no' (0) on whether they have engaged in violent behaviour against others (teachers, students or others) in the past (e.g. "Have you ever hit (or threatened to hit) a teacher or other adult at school?"). Specifically, items also asked about whether they were violent with the intent to harming others (e.g., " Have you ever attacked someone with the idea of seriously hurting or killing him or her?") or obtaining things (e.g., "Have you ever used force (strong-arm method) to get money or things from other students?")...

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Recognition of Pain as Another Deficit in Young Males with High Callous-Unemotional Traits

Wolf

Centifanti

2013

Child Psychiatry Hum Dev

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“…The scales demonstrated adequate internal consistency with coefficient alphas ranging from 0.76 for proactive aggression to 0.89 for total aggression in this detained sample. Delinquency Participant's self-report of delinquency was measured using the Self-Reported Delinquency Scale (SRD; Elliott and Ageton 1980). The SRD scale assesses the number of crimes committed by the youth by listing 36 questions about illegal juvenile acts selected from a list of all offenses reported in the Uniform Crime Report with a juvenile base rate of greater than 1% (Elliott and Huizinga 1984).…”

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Can a Laboratory Measure of Emotional Processing Enhance the Statistical Prediction of Aggression and Delinquency in Detained Adolescents with Callous-unemotional Traits?

Kimonis

Frick

Muñoz

et al. 2007

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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In this cross-sectional study, we investigated whether the combination of the presence of callousunemotional (CU) traits and emotional deficits to distressing stimuli, assessed by a computerized dot-probe task, enhanced the statistical prediction of aggression and delinquency in a sample of 88 detained and predominantly African-American (68%) adolescents (M age=15.57; SD= 1.28). Overall, self-reported CU traits were associated with self-report measures of aggression and delinquency, but not with official records of arrests. However, there was an interaction between CU traits and emotional deficits for predicting self-reported aggression, self-reported violent delinquency, and a record of violent arrests. Youth high on CU traits and who showed a deficit in their responses to visual depictions of distress showed the highest levels of aggression and violent delinquency.

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“…39 This report included 14 questions regarding antisocial behaviors of their peers (eg, "Have your friends taken anything that did not belong to them?") (a= 0.83).…”

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Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

Sitnick¹,

Brennan²,

Forbes

et al. 2014

Pediatrics

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WHAT'S KNOWN ON THIS SUBJECT: Investigations of adolescents' sexual risk behavior have focused on factors such as parental monitoring, deviant peer affiliation, and daring that occur during early and midadolescence. Less is known about early childhood precursors to adolescent sexual risk behavior. WHAT THIS STUDY ADDS:This prospective longitudinal study identifies parenting practices and mothers' depressive symptomatology during early childhood as precursors to later sexual risk behavior and involvement in pregnancy in adolescent boys, with deviant peer affiliation during emerging adolescence mediating these relationships. abstract OBJECTIVE: Adolescent boys' involvement in pregnancy and sexual risk behavior is a public health concern. Although research has identified predictors of sexual risk behavior during adolescence, few studies have investigated precursors to boys' sexual risk behavior beginning in early childhood, the identification of which could serve to inform interventions and help reduce involvement in pregnancy. Our goal was to identify early developmental pathways associated with sexual risk behavior in a sample of low-income adolescent boys. METHODS:Data from a prospective longitudinal study in 310 at-risk boys were used to examine externalizing problems, mothers' depressive symptoms, and low-nurturant parenting in early childhood (1.5, 2, and 3.5 years old) and daring, externalizing, parental monitoring, and deviant peer affiliation during emerging adolescence (11 and 12 years old) as precursors of sexual risk behavior between the ages 15 and 20 years. Structural equation modeling was used to explore pathways associated with later high-risk sexual behavior (HRSB). RESULTS:In multivariate analyses, adolescent daring and deviant peer affiliation at age 12 were associated with later HRSB. Furthermore, deviant peer affiliation during emerging adolescence mediated the relationship between mothers' depressive symptoms and nurturant parenting during early childhood and later adolescent HRSB. CONCLUSIONS:Family-based risk factors in early childhood are predictive of HRSB in adolescence but are also influenced, and in some cases mediated, by relationships with peers and child characteristics during emerging adolescence.

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Reconciling Race and Class Differences in Self-Reported and Official Estimates of Delinquency

Cited by 818 publications

References 12 publications

Recognition of Pain as Another Deficit in Young Males with High Callous-Unemotional Traits

Recognition of Pain as Another Deficit in Young Males with High Callous-Unemotional Traits

Can a Laboratory Measure of Emotional Processing Enhance the Statistical Prediction of Aggression and Delinquency in Detained Adolescents with Callous-unemotional Traits?

Developmental Pathways to Sexual Risk Behavior in High-Risk Adolescent Boys

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