Kiriakidis Stavros P
University of Patras, Patras, Greece.
Epidemiol Psichiatr Soc. 2007 Jul-Sep;16(3):238-50.
The present paper is an overview of studies examining chronic, persistent offending and recidivism in adolescents and young offenders.
The review focused on published papers dealing with chronic offending of adolescents and young offenders.
The paper provides the picture on definition on juvenile delinquency, definition of recidivism, measurement and operationalisation of recidivism, definition of chronic offenders, correlates and predictors of chronic offending, differences and similarities between chronic and non-chronic offenders, possible genetic influences in chronic offending, proportion of criminal activity attributed to chronic young offenders, factors differentially associated with initiation, escalation, persistence and desistance in juvenile offending.
Overall the boundaries of the sociological approach to the study of chronic offending are stressed and the possible advantages of employing a social psychological approach to the study of chronic offending are noted.
本文概述了针对青少年及年轻罪犯的慢性、持续性犯罪及再犯情况的研究。
该综述聚焦于已发表的有关青少年及年轻罪犯慢性犯罪的论文。
本文呈现了青少年犯罪的定义、再犯的定义、再犯的衡量与操作化、慢性犯罪者的定义、慢性犯罪的相关因素及预测因素、慢性与非慢性犯罪者之间的差异与相似之处、慢性犯罪中可能的遗传影响、慢性年轻罪犯所致犯罪活动的比例、与青少年犯罪的起始、升级、持续及停止有差异关联的因素。
总体而言，强调了社会学方法在慢性犯罪研究中的界限，并指出了采用社会心理学方法研究慢性犯罪可能具有的优势。
