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R E Tremblay

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PubMed1988

An integrative control theory of delinquent behavior: a validation 1976-1985.

Criminology should be a field of inquiry where psychology and sociology meet in seeking to explain delinquency, but this has rarely been the case. Our paper is an attempt in that direction within the context of a control theory. Ever since Lewin (1933) proposed his famous formula: B = (P) x (E), where conduct (B) depends on the interaction between the characteristics of a person (P) and his environment (E), there have been numerous attempts to encourage theoreticians to develop integrative theories of conduct--in other words, to take account of the sociological and psychological factors simultaneously.

Adaptation, Psychological↗
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Trajectories of boys' physical aggression, opposition, and hyperactivity on the path to physically violent and nonviolent juvenile delinquency.

A semi-parametric mixture model was used with a sample of 1,037 boys assessed repeatedly from 6 to 15 years of age to approximate a continuous distribution of developmental trajectories for three externalizing behaviors. Regression models were then used to determine which trajectories best predicted physically violent and nonviolent juvenile delinquency up to 17 years of age. Four developmental trajectories were identified for the physical aggression, opposition, and hyperactivity externalizing behavior dimensions: a chronic problem trajectory, a high level near-desister trajectory, a moderate level desister trajectory, and a no problem trajectory. Boys who followed a given trajectory for one type of externalizing problem behavior did not necessarily follow the same trajectory for the two other types of behavior problem. The different developmental trajectories of problem behavior also led to different types of juvenile delinquency. A chronic oppositional trajectory, with the physical aggression and hyperactivity trajectories being held constant, led to covert delinquency (theft) only, while a chronic physical aggression trajectory, with the oppositional and hyperactivity trajectories being held constant, led to overt delinquency (physical violence) and to the most serious delinquent acts.

Adolescent↗