Protective factors against offending and violence: Results from prospective longitudinal studies

Ttofi, Maria M.; Farrington, David P.; Piquero, Alex R.; DeLisi, Matthew

doi:10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2016.02.001

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“…We offer several explanations for this finding. First, it is likely that the enduring, deep-seated risk factors for some of these families require much more pervasive interventions to modify the risk factors and promote protective factors (Kim et al 2015;Ttofi et al 2016). It is also possible that young people and their parents' memory of the laws and their obligations fade over time without constant reminders.…”

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Disrupting the Pathway from Truancy to Delinquency: A Randomized Field Trial Test of the Longitudinal Impact of a School Engagement Program

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Objective Truancy in adolescence is related to detrimental developmental outcomes over the life-course, including a greater risk for delinquency during adolescence and offending in adulthood. This paper presents results from the Ability School Engagement Program (ASEP): a Third Party Policing partnership between schools and police that sought to disrupt the relationship between truancy and delinquency by communicating, in a procedurally fair dialogue, the legal responsibilities of parents to ensure their children attend school. This paper examines the impact of ASEP on antisocial behavior and the modifying effects of ASEP on the relationship between willingness to go to school and antisocial behavior. Methods ASEP was evaluated under randomized field trial conditions, where 102 truanting young people from a highly disadvantaged urban area in Brisbane, Australia, were randomly assigned to either the ASEP intervention or the business-as-usual condition. Results Utilizing four waves of survey data collected over a 2-year time period, we found evidence that ASEP was related to decreases in self-reported antisocial behavior throughout the 2 years study. We also find that ASEP lessened the negative relationship between willingness to go to school and self-reported antisocial behavior for those in the experimental condition up to 1 year post random allocation. Conclusions Partnerships between schools and police that communicate, in a procedurally fair way, parental legal responsibilities for their children to attend school holds promise for increasing a truanting young person's willingness to go to school and reducing their selfreported antisocial behaviour, at least in the short run.

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“…Evidence is mounting that many factors can buffer or reduce the likelihood of youth violence, and multiple protective factors can even offset the potential harmful influence of risk factors that have accumulated over a child's development. [41][42][43] Protective factors include healthy social, problem-solving, and emotional regulation skills and a young person's school readiness and academic achievement. 41,[43][44][45] Positive and warm parent-youth relationships in which parents set consistent, developmentally appropriate limits and demonstrate interest in their children's education and social relationships are associated with healthy child and adolescent development and the prevention of violent behavior.…”

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A comprehensive technical package for the prevention of youth violence and associated risk behaviors

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“…However, not all juvenile delinquents who match this profile will develop persistent and violent criminal behavior. Even within high-risk groups there are those who desist from crime before or during the transition from adolescence into adulthood (Bushway et al 2003;Farrington et al 2009;Ttofi et al 2016). From a harm reduction and public safety perspective, this constitutes a need to further differentiate within high-risk target groups for the timely identification of juvenile delinquents at highest risk to develop into young adult violent offenders.…”

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Constellations of youth criminogenic factors associated with young adult violent criminal behavior

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This study identified constellations of childhood risk factors associated with violent criminal behavior in early adulthood. Police data were used to sample violent and nonviolent offenders from a population of young adult males with a history of juvenile probation. Risk factors were retrieved from their juvenile probation files. A single classification tree analysis organized these into a decision tree for violent criminal behavior with good predictive accuracy. Two constellations of risk factors were associated with a high risk of violent criminal behavior. The first consisted of juvenile delinquents who had been moderately involved with criminal peers, who had committed offenses under the influence of drugs, and who came from a dysfunctional family. The second was characterized by having been severely involved with criminal peers and having had criminal family members. Presenting with depressive symptoms in childhood was associated with a low risk of violent criminal behavior. These constellations bear clinical importance as they provide targets for personalized interventions.

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Protective factors against offending and violence: Results from prospective longitudinal studies

Cited by 59 publications

References 7 publications

Disrupting the Pathway from Truancy to Delinquency: A Randomized Field Trial Test of the Longitudinal Impact of a School Engagement Program

Disrupting the Pathway from Truancy to Delinquency: A Randomized Field Trial Test of the Longitudinal Impact of a School Engagement Program

A comprehensive technical package for the prevention of youth violence and associated risk behaviors

Constellations of youth criminogenic factors associated with young adult violent criminal behavior

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