Dating violence is a serious public health problem. In recent years, the US Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention and other entities have made funding available to …

Conduct disorder (CD) and delinquency are behavioural problems involving violation of
major rules, societal norms, and laws. The prevalence of CD and delinquency peaks in mid …

The Psychology of Criminal Conduct, Seventh Edition, provides a psychological and
evidence-informed perspective of criminal behavior that sets it apart from many …

Missing data analyses have received considerable recent attention in the methodological
literature, and two “modern” methods, multiple imputation and maximum likelihood …

This chapter describes positive youth development (PYD) as an emerging arena of applied
developmental science. We show how PYD is both rooted in the theoretical traditions of …

After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great
deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment …

Psychology and Its Relations to Physiology, Anthropology, Sociology, Sex, Crime, Religion,
and Education. Hall's vision blended attention to individual and contextual factors, as well as …

School shootings tear the fabric of society. In the wake of a school shooting, parents,
pediatricians, policymakers, politicians, and the public search for “the” cause of the shooting …

This study takes stock of empirical research examining the relationship between gang
membership and offending by subjecting this large body of work to a meta-analysis …

The present study examined relations among neighborhood structural and social
characteristics, parenting practices, peer group affiliations, and delinquency among a group …