Substance Use and Delinquent Behavior Among Serious Adolescent Offenders
Author(s):
Mulvey, E.P., Schubert, C.A., & Chassin, L.
Organization:
Office of Juvenile Justice and Deliquency Prevention
Publisher:
U.S. Department of Justice
Date Published:
December, 2010 This bulletin presents results from the Pathways to Desistance study, which interviewed juvenile offenders after their conviction to determine what leads them to persist in or desist from serious offending. It focuses on understanding the connection between substance use and serious offending, including how these behaviors affect one another in adolescence and how they change in early adulthood, particularly when one behavior ceases.
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