List some of the childhood risk factors for persistent delinquency. What factors do you believe have the greatest impact, why?
What will be an ideal response?
• Individual factors: early antisocial behavior, emotional factors such as high behavioral activation and lower behavioral inhibition; poor cognitive development; low intelligence; hyperactivity
• School and community factors: failure to bond to school; poor academic performance; low 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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