Contemporaneous Co-Occurrence of Serious and Violent Juvenile Offending and Other Problem Behaviors (From Serious and Violent Juvenile Offenders: Risk Factors and Successful Interventions, P 47-67, 1998, Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, eds. - See NCJ-171234)

• NCJ Number: 171238
• Author(s): D Huizinga; C Jakob-Chien
• Date Published: 1998
• Length: 21 pages
• Sale Source: Sage Publications, Inc
• Publication Type: Issue Overview
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: *This document is currently unavailable from NCJRS.

Annotation

This chapter examines the concurrent relationship of serious and violent juvenile (SVJ) offending to other problem behaviors during periods of active offending.

Abstract

The chapter examines drug use, school problems, psychopathology, and victimization. These overlap with other problem behaviors, such as involvement in various forms of delinquency and gang membership. The descriptions of the contemporaneous overlap of problem behaviors do not represent causal relationships but rather serve to expand the descriptions of the group of individuals identified as SVJ offenders and further indicate the nature and experiences of these individuals. There is substantial co-occurrence or overlap between each of the problems considered in this chapter and serious violent and serious nonviolent offending, with some variation by gender and delinquency seriousness level. More than 90 percent of SVJ offenders had at least one other problem, and approximately 75 percent had two or more of the problems examined. Tables