2001) compared the verbal abilities of adolescence-limited
delinquents with the verbal abilities of adolescents whose antisocial behavior persisted through adulthood and found no significant difference.
In the January Psychological Review, Granic and Patterson described recent insights into the development of violent and
delinquent behavior gleaned from long-term tracking of child-parent interactions.
There appears to be a linear relationship between blood lead levels and the number of reported
delinquent acts from the lowest levels of exposure to the highest," Dietrich says.
Typically, the police could hold alleged
delinquents either in juvenile detention facilities or even in local jails at their own discretion, with, at most, nominal judicial supervision.
If
delinquents are encouraged, taught, or pressured to be
delinquent by other
delinquents, there must be some level of attachment.
State law allows restaurant tax collectors to pursue
delinquent taxpayers in court and audit their books, but only if the city has an ordinance granting the collector that authority.
Investigators must establish that
delinquents have some knowledge that their behavior is problematic.
There are also, however, plenty of private sector buildings on the
delinquent lists.
Research report on the situational leadership/attitude modification program for adjudicated
delinquents.
The practice "was designed to deal with
delinquents who stole hubcaps, not those who mug old ladies," notes sociologist Rita Kramer in At a Tender Age: Violent Youth and Juvenile Justice (1988).
Its basic propositions are: (1)
delinquents as well as non-
delinquents are morally committed to conventional norms; (2)
delinquents differ from non-
delinquents in using techniques to neutralize conventional norms when participating in morally offensive behaviour.
While office and industrial loans remained substantially unchanged, there was a small gain in
delinquent multifamily loans, and a corresponding decline in retail
delinquents.
