What makes a juvenile delinquent develop into an adult criminal? What defines-cognitively, developmentally, legally-the transition from juvenile to adult and wh

Even though youth crime rates have fallen since the mid-1990s, public fear and political rhetoric over the issue have heightened. The Columbine shootings and ot

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A study of juvenile delinquency and adult crime in the immigrant population of Gary, Indiana. Examines those associations of juvenile delinquency and petty adul

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