Identify and discuss four factors that affect chronic delinquency
What will be an ideal response?
Individual Factors
• Early antisocial behavior
• Emotional factors, such as high behavioral activation and low behavioral inhibition
• Poor cognitive development
• Low intelligence
• Hyperactivity
School and Community Factors
• Failure to bond to school
• Poor academic performance
• Low academic aspirations
• Living in a poor family
• Neighborhood disadvantage
• Disorganized neighborhoods
• Concentration of delinquent peer groups
• Access to weapons
Family Factors
• Parenting
• Maltreatment
• Family violence
• Divorce
• Parental psychopathology
• Familial antisocial behaviors
• Teenage parenthood
• Family structure
• Large family size
Peer Factors
• Association with deviant peers
• Peer rejection
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