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This study examines the declining crime trend among Swedish adolescents between 1999 and 2017 using data from eight repeated cross‐sectional waves of a nationally representative school survey (N = ca. 49,000). We examined to what extent changes in parental monitoring, school bonds, attitudes toward crime, routine activities, and binge drinking were related to the noticeable decline in youth crime. Multilevel modeling was employed for the analysis of temporal trends. We found strong empirical support for our hypotheses, that is, that changes in social bonds, attitudes toward crime, and routine activities were all associated with the decline in youth crime. Routine activities had the strongest explanatory power, and all predictors combined accounted for most of the variance attributed to the decline in youth crime. This study moves research on the crime drop closer to the analysis of social mechanisms by demonstrating that micro‐level associations between theoretically relevant, proximal variables, and delinquency account for macro‐level change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examines the declining crime trend among Swedish adolescents between 1999 and 2017 using data from eight repeated cross‐sectional waves of a nationally representative school survey (N = ca. 49,000). We examined to what extent changes in parental monitoring, school bonds, attitudes toward crime, routine activities, and binge drinking were related to the noticeable decline in youth crime. Multilevel modeling was employed for the analysis of temporal trends. We found strong empirical support for our hypotheses, that is, that changes in social bonds, attitudes toward crime, and routine activities were all associated with the decline in youth crime. Routine activities had the strongest explanatory power, and all predictors combined accounted for most of the variance attributed to the decline in youth crime. This study moves research on the crime drop closer to the analysis of social mechanisms by demonstrating that micro‐level associations between theoretically relevant, proximal variables, and delinquency account for macro‐level change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study examined the validity and reliability of the Structured Assessment of Violence Risk in Youth (SAVRY), the Youth Level of Service/Case Management Inventory (YLS/CMI), and the Psychopathy Checklist: Youth Version (PCL:YV) in a sample of Spanish adolescents with a community sanction (N = 105). Self-reported delinquency with a follow-up period of 1 year was used as the outcome measure. The predictive validity of the three measures was compared with the unstructured judgment of the juvenile’s probation officer and the self-appraisal of the juvenile. The three measures showed moderate effect sizes, ranging from area under the curve (AUC) = .75 (SAVRY) to AUC = .72 (PCL:YV), in predicting juvenile reoffending. The two unstructured judgments had no significant predictive validity whereas the SAVRY had significantly higher predictive validity compared with both unstructured judgments. Finally, SAVRY protective factor total scores and SAVRY summary risk ratings did not add incremental validity over SAVRY risk total scores. The high base rates of both violent (65.4%) and general reoffending (81.9%) underline the need for further risk assessment and management research with this population. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The present study aimed to examine the relationship between Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Self-Reported Delinquency (SRD) among college students and compare adolescents with high SRD and low SRD on EI. The sample consisted of 200 boys taken from different government and private colleges of Islamabad and Rawalpindi. EI scale (Wong & Law, 2002) was used to measure EI. Self Reported Delinquency Scale (SRDS) (Naqvi & Kamal, 2007) was used to measure delinquent tendencies among adolescents. Reliability of EI was found to be (.81) where as for SRDS it was (.83). Results indicated that EI is negatively correlated and it also negatively predicts SRD (r=-.502, p < .001, ΔR² = .36). Comparison of adolescent boys with different income levels, on SRDS and EI showed that SRD is high in adolescents with low SES while it has no effects on EI (F = 19.218, p< .001). Comparison of adolescents with high delinquent tendencies and low delinquent tendencies groups were made on EI. Results indicated that EI is low in high delinquent tendencies group (t= 9.521, p < .001). The study tends to explore the effects of different family system on EI and SRDS. The results showed that adolescents living with nuclear family system scored higher on delinquency (t = 2.648, p < .01) and adolescents living in joint family system were found higher on EI (t= 2.086, p < .05). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]