Adolescent Reputations and Risk Developmental Trajectories to Delinquency /

• Main Authors: Hattie, John A. (Author), Durkin, Kevin. (Author), Houghton, Stephen. (Author), Carroll, Annemaree. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer US, 2009.
• Series: Advancing Responsible Adolescent Development
• Subjects: Philosophy (General).; Criminology.; Social work.; Applied psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Developmental Psychology.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Social Work.; Psychotherapy and Counseling.; Education (general).
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The news of teenagers and even younger children committing ever more serious and violent crimes continues to shock and baffle. The escalating psychological and social toll of youth crime is being paid by all  from victims to offenders to parents and siblings to teachers and to the community as a wh...

Table of Contents:

• Youth At-Risk: Choice, Trajectory, and Circumstance
• Reputation Enhancing Goals: The Theory of Deliberate Choice
• Initiating Goals and Reputations
• Accelerating Goals and Reputations
• Sustaining Goals and Reputations
• Developmental Trajectories to Antisocial Behavior
• Severe Antisocial Behavior and the Construct of Psychopathy in Children and Adolescents
• The Fledgling Psychopath Hypothesis: A Matter of Circumstance
• Developing Ecological Measures for the At-Risk Population
• Treatment and Intervention for At-Risk Populations
• Looking Back Moving Forward: Beyond Adolescents.