Studies have consistently shown higher rates of offending for males than for females, and
especially higher rates of violence. Gender differences in the development of social …

This article reports a meta-analysis on social skills training as a measure for preventing
antisocial behavior in children and youth. From 851 documents, 84 reports containing 135 …

Abstract Objective To update Piquero et al.'s meta-analysis on early family/parent training
programs. Methods Screening of eligible studies was carried out for the period between …

" The best organized and most comprehensive theory textbook to use for both graduate and
undergraduate students. It provides historical context to the theories, and the authors make it …

A developmental cascade model linking competence and symptoms was tested in a study of
a normative, urban school sample of 205 children (initially 8 to 12 years old). Internalizing …

Criminal careers have long occupied the imaginations of criminologists. Since the 1986
publication of the National Academy of Sciences report on criminal careers and career …

Research on human aggression has been a flourishing industry in the 20th century. As the
attention shifted from an instinctual paradigm to a drive paradigm and a social learning …

Written by a child psychiatrist, a criminologist and a social psychologist, Antisocial Behavior
by Young People is a major international review of research evidence on antisocial …

This chapter traces and evaluates both the historic emergence of the modern 'preventive
turn'as well as the elaboration and institutionalisation of crime prevention and community …

This study examines the features of effective school-based prevention of crime, substance
use, dropout/nonattendance, and other conduct problems. It summarizes, using meta …