At-risk youth : identifying, charting, and explaining the course of early involvement with crime -- Reputation-enhancing goals : the theory of deliberate choice -- Measuring delinquency, goals, and reputational orientations in young persons -- Children at risk : initiating goals and reputations -- Adolescents at risk : establishing goals and reputations -- Establishing and maintaining reputations through risk-taking behavior -- Early-onset life-course persistent and late-onset adolescent-limited offenders : impulsivity, peers, and social reputations -- Psychopathy in children and adolescents and the fledgling psychopath hypothesis -- Treatment and interventions for young persons at risk -- Developmental trajectories of deviancy : looking back, moving forward
Summary
The news of teenagers committing violent crimes continues to shock. This title examines the motivation and values that make some young people choose antisocial over positive behavior. It describes the volatile dynamic of child and adolescent social worlds, emphasizing reputation enhancement and goal-setting as bases underlying deviant behavior
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-198) and index
