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Longitudinal Associations Between Support and Prosocial Behavior Across Adolescence: The Roles of Fathers, Mothers, Siblings, and Friends
Adolescents learn prosocial behaviors by observing family and friends. Supportive relationships also encourage them to help others.
Trajectories of parental warmth and the role they play in explaining adolescent prosocial behavior
The study found that parental warmth during childhood and adolescence is linked to more prosocial behavior in adolescents. Different patterns of warmth through development may influence an adolescent's willingness to help others.
Introduction: Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, youth justice and the law
This special issue examines how unrecognized ADHD in youth contributes to high rates of incarceration and repeat offenses. It aims to inform practitioners and policymakers about ADHD and offer solutions for the justice system.
In conversation: An inside perspective of youth justice practice and experience
This dialogue explores the challenges and strengths experienced by previously incarcerated children who become adult practitioners in the youth justice system.
Who is at risk? Applying the biopsychosocial model to explain non-violent and violent delinquency in youth
This study uses a biopsychosocial model to understand how biological, psychological, and social factors influence non-violent and violent delinquency in at-risk youth.
Levels of involvement with child protection services associated with early adolescent police contact as a victim and person of interest
Child maltreatment is linked to later criminal offending and victimization. This study examines how different levels of child protection services involvement relate to police contact for Australian children.
Adolescent risk-taking likelihood, risk perceptions, and benefit perceptions across domains
Adolescents often take more risks than children or adults, but this varies across different situations and individuals. Risk-taking levels also differ in adolescents with and without ADHD.
Adverse Impacts of Mental Health Needs Assessment on Jail Outcomes: Evidence from Transition Age Youth and Adults
Youth randomly assigned a moderate to severe mental health needs score stayed in jail longer and had more suicide attempts. This classification did not significantly affect recidivism rates for youth.
Longitudinal tracking of alcohol expectancies and their associations with impulsivity in alcohol naïve youth in the adolescent brain cognitive development (ABCD) study
Adolescence involves developmental changes and increased novelty-seeking, including alcohol experimentation. Beliefs about alcohol's effects and impulsive behaviors contribute to alcohol initiation and escalation.
Fourteen to life: Giving constitutional effect to the age-based presumption of diminished moral blameworthiness by respecting Parliament’s two-pronged test for adult sentence applications pursuant to section 72 of the Youth Criminal Justice Act.
Canadian courts struggle to apply laws allowing adult sentences for young people, despite legal protections. A new Supreme Court of Canada review aims to provide clearer guidance on these complex cases.
Inequities in Mental Health Services: A 16-Year Longitudinal Study of Youth in the Justice System
Many youth in the justice system have enduring mental health disorders but often do not receive needed services. Disparities exist by race, gender, and age, with certain groups less likely to receive care.
Rethinking peer influence and risk taking: A strengths-based approach to adolescence in a new era
Over the past 25 years, externalizing behaviors in adolescents, like teen pregnancy and substance abuse, have significantly decreased. However, rates of depression, anxiety, and loneliness have dramatically increased during the same period.
Life after life: Recidivism among individuals formerly sentenced to mandatory juvenile life without parole
The Supreme Court ruled that sentencing juveniles to the harshest penalties violates the Eighth Amendment, citing developmental science. This led to more than 2000 individuals becoming eligible for resentencing.
A comparative network analysis of the criminogenic needs of male emerging adult first-time offenders, repeated offenders, and university students
This study compares criminogenic needs across non-offenders, first-time offenders, and repeat offenders aged 18-25.
Analysis of Substance Use and Mental Disorder Diagnoses in Adolescents with a History of Delinquency: A Cross-sectional Study
A significant number of children and adolescents experiencing mental disorders are also involved in juvenile delinquency. Substance use is a major factor, often leading to criminal behavior and increasing health risks.