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Self-Report Studies
Self-report surveys are data-gathering procedures that involve asking subjects to recall or admit to various types of behavior. As an attempt to overcome some of the shortcomings of reliance on official statistics, researchers have developed studies in which the respondents are asked to admit to various delinquent or criminal acts. Most studies have been conducted in the United States, primarily in delinquency studies of schoolchildren and high school and college students.
History and Findings
In 1947, a sample of adults was mailed a self-report survey, and 99 percent of the respondents admitted to having committed at least one offense. In another such study, admitted delinquency among Texas college students was found to be as high as officially processed delinquents. However, it was a 1957 study of Nashville ...
- Delinquency Theories and Theorists
- Albert Cohen
- Biological Theories
- Clifford Shaw
- Cycle of Violence
- Edwin Sutherland
- Fredrick Thrasher
- Henry McKay
- James Short
- Joan McCord
- Lamar T. Empey
- Lloyd Ohlin
- Marvin Wolfgang
- Psychological Theories
- Richard Cloward
- Ruth Shonle Cavan
- Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck
- Sociological Theories
- Solomon Kobrin
- Stanley G. Hall
- Thorsten Sellin
- Travis Hirschi
- Walter Miller
- Walter Reckless
- Historical References: People and Projects
- Delinquent Behavior
- Treatment and Interventions for Delinquency
- Aftercare
- Alternative Schools
- Assessment
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- Boys and girls Clubs
- community action boards
- Culturally Specific Programming
- curfews
- DARE
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- family therapy
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- group therapy
- mediation
- out of home placement
- police responses to delinquency
- Prevention strategies
- probation
- Scared Straight
- Teen courts
- victim offender
- Wilderness Programs
- Juvenile Law and Legislative Initiatives
- California Street Terrorism Enforcement & Prevention
- California Youth Authority
- Death Penalty
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- Juvenile Courts
- Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Act
- Juvenile Law
- National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges
- National Council on Crime & Delinquency
- Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
- parens patriae
- Parental liability laws
- Waivers to Adult Court
- Juvenile Issues and Public Policy
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