M Lankester, C Coles, A Trotter, S Scott, J Downs, H Dickson, A Wickersham
{"title":"The Association Between Academic Achievement and Subsequent Youth Offending: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.","authors":"M Lankester, C Coles, A Trotter, S Scott, J Downs, H Dickson, A Wickersham","doi":"10.1007/s40865-025-00266-9","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40865-025-00266-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The association between academic achievement and youth offending has yet to be clearly quantified. This meta-analysis aims to provide a robust estimate of the longitudinal association between academic achievement and subsequent youth offending. We searched PsycINFO, ERIC, British Education Index, and Web of Science from inception to 2 April 2024 using a comprehensive search strategy. We identified eligible studies reporting on the association between academic achievement and subsequent youth offending, as measured using self-report or administrative records up to the age of 25 years. Correlation coefficients and odds ratios were pooled in a meta-analysis. Effect modifiers were investigated in a sub-group analysis, and other findings were narratively synthesised. PROSPERO record: CRD42023402103. Seventeen studies were included, of which eight were pooled in a meta-analysis. The findings showed a small but statistically significant association between lower academic achievement and youth offending (pooled Fisher <i>z</i> = - 0.21, 95% CI [- 0.29, - 0.12], <i>I</i> <sup>2</sup> = 98.4%). Sub-group analysis and narrative synthesis yielded mixed findings on the possible role of measurement timing and offence types. Lower academic achievement was associated with subsequent youth offending, underlining the need for a child-first approach to early prevention and intervention strategies in educational and forensic settings.</p><p><strong>Supplementary information: </strong>The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s40865-025-00266-9.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"10 4","pages":"477-500"},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12102114/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144143921","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Breanne E. Wylie, Lindsay C. Malloy, Adam Fine, Angela D. Evans
{"title":"Do Parents Have “The Talk” or Believe They Should?: Parent–Child Conversations About Interacting with the Police","authors":"Breanne E. Wylie, Lindsay C. Malloy, Adam Fine, Angela D. Evans","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00248-9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00248-9","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parent–child conversations about how to interact with the police are colloquially known as “The Talk.” Studies have largely focused on the influence of age, race, and gender on the occurrence of such conversations. We extended this examination to other potentially influential factors as well as beliefs about whether parents <i>should</i> have “The Talk.” Parents of 5 to 17 year olds (<i>N</i> = 1131) completed questionnaires to assess the influence of demographics, child factors, and parent factors, on whether parents <i>have</i> talked to their child about how to interact with the police, and whether they believe parents <i>should</i> have such conversations. Though most parents believed parents <i>should</i> have “The Talk,” only half of parents <i>had</i> “The Talk” (around age 7). Binary logistic regressions revealed that whereas parental factors (anxiety, perceived discrimination) reduced beliefs that parents <i>should</i> have such conversations, child factors (affective reactivity) influenced whether parents <i>had</i> “The Talk.” Also, with greater perceived police bias and legitimacy, parents were more likely to have “The Talk” and believed parents <i>should</i>. Given that not all parents are having “The Talk” or believe parents <i>should,</i> we conclude that parents might need help in learning <i>how</i> to talk to their children about how to interact with the police.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139070595","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
James M. Ogilvie, Lisa Broidy, Carleen Thompson, Susan Dennison, Troy Allard, Aydan Kuluk, Belinda Crissman, Steve Kisely, Anna Stewart
{"title":"Trajectories of Offending and Mental Health Service Use: Similarities and Differences by Gender and Indigenous Status in an Australian Birth Cohort","authors":"James M. Ogilvie, Lisa Broidy, Carleen Thompson, Susan Dennison, Troy Allard, Aydan Kuluk, Belinda Crissman, Steve Kisely, Anna Stewart","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00246-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00246-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Mental illness is firmly established as a risk factor for criminal legal system contact, particularly for women and Indigenous people. While patterns of criminal legal contact vary by gender and Indigenous status, we do not know how mental health contacts factor into these patterns. The aim of this research is to examine whether mental health characteristics and service contacts vary across patterns of criminal legal system contact defined by group-based trajectory modelling and to explore whether any such variation is consistent across gender and Indigenous status. Using linked administrative data from a 1990 Australian birth cohort (to age 23/24 years, <i>N</i> = 45,141), we estimate trajectories of criminal legal system contact and assess variation across groups defined by gender and Indigenous status. We then examine whether types of mental illness diagnoses and mental health service contacts varied across trajectory groups and whether this was consistent across gender and Indigenous status. Findings point to important differences in mental health system contact across offending trajectory groups. Differences are suggestive of variation in mental health system utilization at the intersection of gender and Indigenous statuses that are conditioned by patterns of criminal legal system contact. We conclude by outlining the implications of these patterns for life course theories of offending and for gender and culturally informed support and interventions directed towards system-involved individuals with mental health needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"249 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138506603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Intergenerational Transmission of Trust in Criminal Justice Authorities Among Late Adolescents in the Netherlands","authors":"Amy Nivette, Amina op de Weegh, Eva Jaspers","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00245-y","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00245-y","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Relationships with parents, teachers, and peers can expose youth to different types of authority and legal orientations. In particular, parents are expected to play a key role in shaping youth’s perceptions of authority, as they are considered the primary agents of socialization throughout childhood and adolescence. However, few have directly assessed the intergenerational transmission of trust in authorities from parent to child and the mechanisms by which transmission is more or less effective. The current study assesses to what extent parental trust in criminal justice authorities (i.e., police and judges) is associated with trust in criminal justice authorities among a diverse sample of young adults in the Netherlands. Drawing from research on socialization and youth development, we also evaluate to what extent the quality of relationship with the parent conditions the degree of intergenerational transmission of trust in criminal justice authorities. Overall, we found that parental trust in criminal justice authorities measured when the youth were aged 19–20 was positively related to youth trust 1 year later. The quality of the relationship between parents and children was not directly related to youths’ trust in authorities, and for the most part did not moderate the effect of parent trust on youth trust.","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"91 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135320431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael F. TenEyck, J. C. Barnes, Sarah A. El Sayed
{"title":"The Impact of Cumulative Risk on Criminal Behavior Across the Life Course","authors":"Michael F. TenEyck, J. C. Barnes, Sarah A. El Sayed","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00243-0","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00243-0","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"38 3","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134910400","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Effects of Teenage Work Quality on Delinquency","authors":"Kelsey Lynn Cundiff","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00244-z","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00244-z","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"42 4","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135322745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jet Westerveld, Jessica J. Asscher, Maja Deković, Suzan Verweij, Gijs Weijters
{"title":"The Role of Psychopathic Traits and Supportive Parental Practices in Long-Term Juvenile Recidivism: a 10-Year Follow-Up","authors":"Jet Westerveld, Jessica J. Asscher, Maja Deković, Suzan Verweij, Gijs Weijters","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00242-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00242-1","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Recidivism rates of juvenile delinquents remain high despite numerous intervention efforts. Identifying factors that can predict (long-term) recidivism is therefore an important research issue. Knowledge on why juveniles re-offend is a key to effective interventions as it helps to identify factors most likely to be successful targets in intervention programs. A 10-year follow-up study prospectively examined whether psychopathic traits and supportive parental practices predicted the timing and frequency of recidivism in juvenile delinquents. Participants were 256 adolescents who were referred to treatment for serious antisocial behavior (72.4% male). Participants were between 12 and 18 years old at baseline ( M = 15.9 years). Parents reported on juveniles’ psychopathic traits and supportive parental practices at baseline. At 10-year follow-up, the official recidivism data were collected. A substantial number of juveniles (86.3%) had recidivated at 10-year follow-up. Juvenile psychopathic traits and supportive parental practices did not incrementally predict the timing or frequency of recidivism over time over and beyond the static control variables gender and prior offenses. The present study confirms previous work suggesting that static risk factors gender and prior offenses are strongest predictors of recidivism.","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"235 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136113961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Measurement Lens Matters: Considering the Sensitivity of the Gang Effect to Coding Across Samples","authors":"J. McGloin, M. Augustyn","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00241-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00241-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45894511","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jennifer A. A. Lavoie, Adam D. Fine, A. Thomas, P. Frick, L. Steinberg, E. Cauffman
{"title":"How Important is Developmental Maturity in Assessing Whether Adolescents Will Share True or False Accounts of a First Offense in Legal Interactions?","authors":"Jennifer A. A. Lavoie, Adam D. Fine, A. Thomas, P. Frick, L. Steinberg, E. Cauffman","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00238-x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00238-x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46700671","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Langevin, M. Boivin, Mélanie Bouliane, S. Côté, R. Tremblay, G. Turecki, F. Vitaro, I. Ouellet-Morin
{"title":"Impact of Family Violence on Antisocial Behaviors in Two Developmental Periods: the Investigation of the Moderating Role of a Haplotypic Serotonergic Polygenic Score","authors":"S. Langevin, M. Boivin, Mélanie Bouliane, S. Côté, R. Tremblay, G. Turecki, F. Vitaro, I. Ouellet-Morin","doi":"10.1007/s40865-023-00239-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s40865-023-00239-w","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":45772,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology","volume":"86 7","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41258130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}