Updating a previous systematic review of the literature, this review summarizes the literature
over the last 5 years on the relationship between school-based extracurricular activity …

For this report, organized sport is defined as physical activity that is directed by adult or
youth leaders and involves rules and formal practice and competition. School and club …

There is a widespread belief that sport participation inevitably contributes to youth
development because sport's assumed essential goodness and purity is passed on to those …

In many US secondary schools, inter-scholastic sports play crucial roles in structuring
student status hierarchies and peer friendship networks.“Star''male athletes are often …

Extracurricular activity participation is linked to positive development, but it is also a setting
for inequality. Using a quarter century of data from Monitoring the Future (N= 593,979; 51 …

This research, funded from the Culture and Sport Evidence (CASE) programme, reviews the
current evidence base on the social impacts of sport and culture. Using a systematic review …

Although prison can present a critical opportunity to engage with offenders through
interventions and programming, reoffending rates among those released from prison remain …

What is social control? How do social controls become part of everyday life? What role does
the criminal justice system play in exerting control? Is the diagnosis and treatment of mental …

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to juvenile delinquency by defining and
describing juvenile delinquency, examining explanations for delinquent behavior, and …

This work looks into how, why, and when people pursue things in life that they desire, those
that make their existence attractive and worth living. Robert A. Stebbins calls this" Positive …