Sentence examples for delinquent activities from inspiring English sources

Criterion validity was evaluated through the association with related variables, such as age and school failure, as well as the scale's ability to capture group differences, namely between genders and school retentions, and finally by comparing a sub-group of convicted adolescents with a group of non-convicted ones regarding their engagement in delinquent activities.

According to the literature (e.g. Emler and Reicher 1995; Farrington et al. 2013; Gottfredson and Hirschi 1990; Hansen 2003; Junger-Tas, et al. 2003), the engagement in deviant and delinquent activities escalates from pre-adolescence to mid-adolescence, when it reaches its peak (generally around 16 years old), and then starts to stabilize and decrease in the subsequent years.

"My son did not finish high school and got involved in delinquent activities.

Sport-for-development programs have the power prevent youth from turning to delinquent activities, and there are many programs which do this very well in communities around the country.

The most important factor in reducing later psychological problems, such as major depression, criminality, school failure, and substance use disorders is formation of friendships with people who are not involved in delinquent activities.

Taking our findings of lower self-esteem in the group with severe delinquency into account, one may assume that this offender type might have compensated feelings of inadequacy with delinquent activities with other juveniles.

I got involved in some delinquent activity.

involvement itself "can increase the likelihood of future delinquent activity".

Adolescents with parents enrolled in the Canadian program showed increased smoking, drinking, drug use and delinquent activity, increased likelihood that teachers called home about school behavior and decreased school achievement.

More specifically ADHD is associated with educational under-achievement [ 94], family-related and peer relationship problems [ 2, 3, 25] and increased anti-social and delinquent activity [ 72].

The number of previous delinquent acts was not significantly related to any behavioural characteristic and there was also no significant association between repeated delinquent activity in the same offending category and any of the dependent variables.