The Abandonment of Delinquent Behavior: Promoting the Turnaround

by Waln K. Brown, Sara Kirk

Overview

This unprecedented study of delinquent behavior reversal challenges the widely held view that early delinquency becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. By identifying the variables involved in the turbanaround process, the contributors provide an examination of issues such as: favorable effects of juvenile court adjudication; following up previously adjudicated delinquents; the post-intervention experience; delinquency and attachment; and evolution, devolution, and disruption of treatment in an antisocial child. The book is a significant and welcome addition to the literature that should stimulate more and better research on the juvenile justice system that will have a positive and constructive thrust. Criminal Justice Review

Adolescent delinquents can often experience a complete behavioral turbanaround—even if their delinquent behaviors have become a pattern. This unprecedented study of delinquent behavior reversal challenges the widely held view that early delinquency becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy. By identifying the variables involved in the turbanaround process, the contributors hope to provide an understanding of this phenomenon—and to encourage its occurrence. They examine, from both personal and research perspectives, issues such as: favorable effects of juvenile court adjudication; following up previously adjudicated delinquents; the post-intervention experience; delinquency and attachment; and evolution, devolution, and disruption of treatment in an antisocial child.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780275929282
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	11/17/1988
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

RICHARD L. JENKINS is Professor of Child Psychiatry at the University of Iowa College of Medicine. He is the principal author of No Single Cause: Juvenile Delinquency and the Search for Effective Treatment (1985).

WALN K. BROWN is Director of the William Gladden Foundation, which publishes materials on a variety of social and family issues affecting children, and author of The Side of Delinquency (1983).

Table of Contents

The Dauphin County Follow-Up
The Favorable Effect of Juvenile Court Adjudication of Delinquent Youth on First Contact with the Juvenile Justice System by Waln K. Brown, Timothy P. Miller, and Richard L. Jenkins
Following-Up Previously Adjudicated Delinquents: A Method by Waln K. Brown and Timothy P. Miller
The Inside Story
People Really Do Make a Difference by Robert Thornton
Imagery as a Motivating Factor in Delinquency Involvement and Cessation by Warren Rhodes
The Post-Intervention Experience: A Self-Report Examination of Deviancy Devolution by Waln K. Brown
Early Intervention Could Have Made a Difference by Tito T. Tiberi
Encouraging and Supporting the Turbanaround by Richard L. Jenkins
Along the Way
Delinquency and Attachment by Gerald E. Nelson and Richard W. Lewak
Growing Out of Delinquency: Development and Desistance by Edward P. Mulvey and Mark Aber
The Evolution, Devolution, and Disruption of Treatment of an Antisocial Child by Frederick G. Tully
Outcome
Serious Delinquents Who Do Not Become Adult Criminals by Gene W. Lutz and Kristin Baughman
A 24-year Follow-up of Men From Vulnerable Backgrounds by David P. Farrington, Bernard Gallagher, Lynda Morley, Raymond J. St. Léger, and Donald J. West
What We Can Do
Keeping Kids in School: Who, How, Why, and So What? by Jerome D. Parker and Jacqueline Desnoyers
Training School Potential: Fulfilling the Expectation by Carle F. O'Neil
Increasing the Chances for Reform Among Delinquents: Hints From the Success-on-Parole Study by Mark R. Wiederanders
For Meditation
Threads for Knitting, Including Some Common Threads by Richard L. Jenkins and Waln K. Brown
Bibliography
Index