Adolescent Reputations and Risk - Developmental Trajectories to Delinquency

Adolescent Reputations and Risk

Preface

Acknowledgments

Contents

At-Risk Youth: Identifying, Charting, and Explaining the Course of Early Involvement with Crime

Children and Adolescents at Risk

Factors Placing Young People at Risk

Factors That Protect Youth at Risk

Youth at Risk and Involvement in Delinquency

Theories of Delinquency

Self-Regulation and Delinquent Involvement

Concluding Comments

Reputation-Enhancing Goals: The Theory of Deliberate Choice

The Reputation-Enhancing Goals (REG) Model: An Overview

Reputation-Enhancement Theory

Goal-Setting Theory

Reputation-Enhancing Goals: Research Evidence for the Integrated Model

Concluding Comments

Measuring Delinquency, Goals, and Reputational Orientations in Young Persons

General Method

Adapted Self-Report Delinquency Scale

The Importance of Goals Scale

Reputation-Enhancement Scale

Concluding Comments

Children at Risk: Initiating Goals and Reputations

Social Reputations and Goals by Deliberate Choice

Initiating Social Identity Through Goals and Reputation

Concluding Comments

Adolescents at Risk: Establishing Goals and Reputations

Using Behavior-Management Systems to Enhance Reputations

Trajectories of Delinquent Activity Among at-Risk High School Students

Reputational Profiles of Young Adolescents

Reputation as Goal-Directed and Deliberate Choice

Concluding Comments

Establishing and Maintaining Reputations Through Risk-Taking Behavior

The Severity of the Problem

Adolescent Risk Taking and the Reputation-Enhancing Goals Model

Substance Use and Reputations

Alcohol Use and Reputations

Use of Volatile Inhalants and Reputations

Body Modifications and Reputations

Concluding Comments

Early-Onset Life-Course Persistent and Late-Onset Adolescent-Limited Offenders: Impulsivity, Peers, and Social Reputations

Early-Onset Life-Course Persistent Offenders and Late-Onset Adolescent-Limited Offenders: Differential Patterns of Delinquency and Impulsivity

Impulsivity and Juvenile Delinquency in Early-Onset and Late-Onset Offenders and Nonoffenders

Extending Reputation-Enhancement Theory: The Social Reputations of Loners

Study: The Delinquency and Reputational Orientations of Loner and Nonloner Delinquents

Psychopathic-like Tendencies and Young Persons at Risk

Concluding Comments

Psychopathy in Children and Adolescents and the Fledgling Psychopath Hypothesis

Child and Adolescent Psychopathy: A Brief Overview

Psychopathic-like Traits and Psychopathology: The Fledgling Psychopath Hypothesis

Study: Testing the Fledgling Psychopath Hypothesis

Diagnostic Group Differences in Levels of Psychopathy and Aggression

Relationships Between Levels of ADHD/CD Symptomatology, Psychopathy, and Aggression

Concluding Comments

Treatment and Interventions for Young Persons at Risk

Parent Training and Family Interventions

School-Based Interventions

Youth Justice Conferencing

Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions

Wilderness Programs for Youth at Risk

Wilderness Boot Camps

Interactive Multimedia-Based Programs

Concluding Comments

Developmental Trajectories of Deviancy: Looking Back, Moving Forward

Initiating and Establishing Reputations

Attaining and Maintaining a Social Identity of Choice

Risk Taking and Social Identity of Choice

Early-Onset Life-Course Persistent and Late-Onset Adolescent-Limited Offenders

Psychopathology in Young Persons and Risk

Treatment and Interventions for Young Persons at Risk

Concluding Comments

References

Index