Youth Crime - Science topic

I developed a stand-alone, self-report scale to assess social desirability/ positive impression management in juvenile delinquents being evaluated for legal disposition purposes.  Based on very preliminary, small sample size field testing, this scale was found to have high correlations with other scales, e.g., the Defensiveness scale of the Personality Inventory for Youth, the Denial Scale of the Jesness Inventory-Revised, and moderate, inverse correlations with scales such as the Externalizing, Rule-Breaking, Anxious/Depressed scales on the Youth Self-Report. Does anyone have the interest and resources to field test this measure with larger samples to examine convergent and discriminant associations?

Robert Semel, Psy.D.

There is an innovative campaign aimed to help young offenders, encouraging to define their aims and to acknowledge the negative side of being a part of gang.

1)What, in your opinion, would motivate 18-25 year-old ex-offenders to do so? 

2) What message is number 1 to be delivered through the mentoring service?

3) Through the design of printed media (such as info leaflet. workbook and posters), how can these people be influence for their own benefits?

Thank you! 

I'm completing a lit review that defines the relational risks to delinquent youth and postulating that mentoring is a desirable intervention to mitigate societal risks and risks to the youth. 

For measuring delinquent behavior in adolescents, who already in  observation home..!!

Looking at disproportionate minority contact of juveniles.

It's my dissertation topic for my MA so any tips would be greatly welcomed. Thank you.

I'm looking for a brief report on instruments that may be useful to assess interpersonal behavior, social competence, adaptative behavior in adolescents. It will be very useful if the assessment tool covers both the prosoacial and antisocial/externalizing spectrum. I hope the community could guide my search.

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The research about this topic is mind blowing. So much information and proof that there is a need for gender-based assessments and programs to address the needs of the girls to help reduce recidivism. It seems to be a nationwide issue. Why aren't there any solutions?

Why do juveniles become delinquents?