Sentences with phrase «delinquent acts»

They had fewer criminal referrals and had fewer self - reported delinquent acts, and violent or serious crimes.

«We're hoping this policy will encourage the public to report delinquent acts of vandalism, like dumping, defacing and other general destruction of park property,» Park District Director Larry Wheeler said at Monday night's park board meeting.

Researchers found that teenagers and young adults who expected to get married within the next five years reported committing fewer delinquent acts in the next year than those who weren't thinking about wedding bells.

For instance, children with involved parents have lower rates of substance use and delinquent acts compared to kids whose parents are uninvolved.

They were also asked whether they had committed certain delinquent acts - including property theft, personal assault, drug dealing and property destruction - since the last time they were interviewed for the study.

Boys in unmarried families carry out more delinquent acts.

In 2001, participants reported slightly fewer delinquent acts, with 1,273 reporting an average of 1.62 incidents of misconduct.

Adolescent reports indicated that 10 % were in the clinical range on internalizing behaviors, 23 % had engaged in major delinquent acts, and 46 % reported some substance use.

Data included responses from an interview protocol developed for the study adapted from the Parent Daily Report, criminal referrals and self - reported delinquent acts.

In a trial with children initially within the clinical range, Webster - Stratton et al. [5] found that post-treatment child behaviour scores remaining within the clinical range was a predictor of adolescent engagement in delinquent acts; achieving post-treatment scores within the normal range was more likely to result in better long - term outcomes.

In 2000, there were 1,492 young people in the study who reported any delinquent acts and they averaged 1.74 such acts in total.

The summary consisted of several sentences describing the link between spanking and short - and long - term child behavior problems, including aggressive and delinquent acts, poor quality of parent - child relationships and an increased risk of child physical abuse.

Fewer negative behaviors: decreased disruptive class behavior, noncompliance, aggression, delinquent acts, and disciplinary referrals.

This process includes learning the techniques to commit delinquent acts and developing the rationalizations to protect one's self - concept.

Most parents change their discipline practices if they notice that their child has committed a delinquent act (Kerr and Stattin 2003).

Immediate post-treatment factors predicting negative outcomes (delinquent acts) were maternal reports of behavior problems and observed mother — child coercion, indicating that in families where levels of parent - child coercion are still high post-treatment, further intervention may be warranted to prevent future problems.