ArticleCriminology : an interdisciplinary journal2021
The contemporary transformation of american youth: An analysis of change in the prevalence of delinquency, 1991-2015.
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- Unstructured spare time and crime: toward an integrative model.Crime science · 2026Article
- Social Change and Race-Specific Homicide Trajectories: An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis.The Journal of research in crime and delinquency · 2024Article
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- Adverse Childhood Experiences and Adolescent Delinquency: A Theoretically Informed Investigation of Mediators during Middle Childhood.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Increased Prescribing of Psychotropic Drugs or School-Based Services for Children with Disabilities? Associations of These Self-control-Boosting Strategies with Juvenile Violence at the State Level.Journal of developmental and life-course criminology · 2023Article
- The Explanation of Adolescent Delinquent Behaviors Based on Jessor's Problem Behavior Theory (PBT) in Iran: The Role of Individual Vulnerability, Opportunity Risk Availability, and Perceived Support.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- U.S. Trends in Adolescent Substance Use and Conduct Problems and Their Relation to Trends in Unstructured In-Person Socializing With Peers.The Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine · 2021Article
- Social change and cohort differences in group-based arrest trajectories over the last quarter-century.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2021Article
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Abstract
Youth involvement in crime has declined substantially over the past few decades, yet the reasons for this trend remain unclear. We advance the literature by examining the role of several potentially important shifts in individual attitudes and behaviors that may help to account for the observed temporal variation in youth delinquency. Our multilevel analysis of repeated cross-sectional data from high school students in the Monitoring the Future (MTF) study indicates that changes in youth offending prevalence were not associated with changes in youth attachment and commitment to school, community involvement, or parental supervision after school. In contrast, the study provides suggestive evidence that the significant reduction in youth offending prevalence observed since the early 1990s was significantly associated with a decrease in unstructured socializing and alcohol consumption and, to a lesser extent, with a decrease in youth preferences for risky activities. Implications for existing theoretical explanations and future research on youth crime trends are discussed.
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