Incarcerated adolescents are at increased risk for negative mental health outcomes. Race
and offense type can differentially influence legal outcomes as well as mental health …

Abstract __________________________________… Juvenile delinquency poses a
constant social challenge to the public. Juvenile delinquency can be defined as a repeated …

Exposure to violence is a robust risk factor associated with violent offending. Furthermore,
exposure to violence can lead to dysfunctional cognitive development, and this may …

Social determinants of health influence who ends up in the juvenile legal system and how
individuals fare when entering and leaving the system. The present study utilized latent …

Although sexually abusive behaviors have been endorsed by gang-involved youth, no
studies have evaluated gang involvement among adolescents adjudicated for illegal sexual …

This study examined whether there were statistical associations between life sentence
types, race, and profiles of persistent criminality among sentenced juvenile homicide …

Research on the role that attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) plays as a
moderator of the relationship between exposure to violence and violent recidivism is limited …

Self-control refers to the ability to override impulses and behave in accordance with societal
norms. Deficits in self-control are strongly associated with conduct problems, externalizing …

This study sought to examine patterns of change and continuity in psychological domestic
abuse as a strain-related process that may be predictive of violent offending in adulthood …

(1) Background: The one general psychopathology (p Factor) theory asserts that a
superordinate dimensional construct encompasses underlying forms of psychopathology …