Juvenile Delinquency

Abstract

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Chronic adolescents and young offenders: An overview of research findings

“…The limited support obtained for social class as a predictor of delinquency leads the authors to estimate that social class theories will need to consider inclusion of variables related to the individual. This is an estimation in the same line of arguing of Binder (1988) who supports that the dominance of sociology on the explanation of juvenile delinquency witnessed in the 20th century, mainly due to the reluctance of the American cultural elite intellectuals to tolerate the notion of the individual responsibility for offending, especially for young offenders, while blaming society as a whole for the phenomenon appeared more appealing, has started to be considerably challenged. However, this conclusion could be premature since socio-economic status is a variable that is rather skewed in prison populations, and it is possible to assume that socio-economic status can lose it's predictive power in terms of predicting recidivism if it represents a constant variable.…”

“…The main feature of the literature about recidivism is that the theoretical framework mainly employed is that of social criminology. The main correlates searched and actually identified are mainly social factors (Binder, 1988) which are regarded as criminogenic and reflect the trend for issues of delinquency being examined through the sociological perspective and with the subsequent suggestion that, unless crucial changes are put forward by society for a change in societal structures, the problem of delinquency will always be there as a side effect of modern, institutionalised, political-economic societal functions.…”

Factores asociados con conducta antisocial en homicidas dolosos en las penitenciarías el CERESO de Puebla, México y el COMEB de Colombia

“…En otro sentido este término se ha considerado tradicionalmente como parte integrante del concepto más general de desviación (Cohen, 1965;Pitch, 1980;Vázquez, 2003, citado en De la Peña, 2010. Desde esta aproximación, la desviación se entendería como aquel tipo de conductas, ideas o atributos personales que violan una norma social (Binder, 1988).…”

An Evidence‐Based Approach to Reducing Recidivism in Court‐Referred Youth

“…We used Maltz's (1984) popular recommendation to measure recidivism based on rearrest data. The rationale for this methodology is that the disposition of juvenile crime is frequently diverted outside, or to a lower rung, of the court system and is not, therefore, always reflected in conviction data (Binder, 1988).…”