Adolescenceâ€" beginning with the onset of puberty and ending in the mid-20sâ€" is a
critical period of development during which key areas of the brain mature and develop …

OBJECTIVE: This article first summarizes key research findings from the Pittsburgh Youth
Study from 1987 to the present, and focuses on delinquency in 1,517 young men who have …

The study of crime has focused primarily on why particular people commit crime or why
specific communities have higher crime levels than others. In The Criminology of Place …

My name is Alonzo Maestas (you can call me Alonzo or Mr. Maestas), and I will be your
instructor for this course. I am looking forward to facilitating your learning in research …

This article proposes a framework for theory and research on risk-taking that is informed by
developmental neuroscience. Two fundamental questions motivate this review. First, why …

The use of police in schools has increased dramatically in the past 12 years, largely due to
increases in US Department of Justice funding. This study used data from the School Survey …

Crime dropped sharply and unexpectedly in the United States in the 1990s. I conclude that
four factors collectively explain the entire drop in crime: increases in the number of police …

Studies of crime at micro places have generally relied on cross‐sectional data and reported
the distributions of crime statistics over short periods of time. In this paper we use official …

Hypotheses about the association of school organizational characteristics with school crime
and disorder were tested in a nationally representative sample of 254 secondary schools …

Detailed and comprehensive, this volume presents authoritative discussions by leading
scholars on issues surrounding serious and violent juvenile offenders. This population is …