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Showing 1 to 20 of 34 for “"antisocial behaviour"”.
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Understanding adolescent antisocial behaviour from attachment theory and coercion theory perspectives
This study examined adolescent antisocial behaviour from two theoretical perspectives: attachment and coercion theories. Adolescents (N = 662, mean age: 15.8 years) completed measures of coping styles, attachment styles and coercive interactions (with mother and father), and rated their parents' …
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Amoral panic: the construction of 'antisocial behaviour' and the institutionalisation of vulnerability
… examine the emergence of the social problem of ‘antisocial behaviour’. Situated in part within the changing political terrain of the 1990s, the emergence of the politics of behaviour is related to the diminution of the human subject and the development of a therapeutic culture - both trends …
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Institutionalization as a contributing factor in antisocial behaviour : implications for statutory social work practice
… of this legislation for persons exhibiting antisocial behaviour were examined in the light of institutional and community-based management options. An overview of the literature is presented in order to place the concepts of institutional care, community-based options and legal reform in …
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Neural markers of antisocial behaviour in offenders and their relationship with risk-factors of offending
… the mechanisms that predispose towards offending behaviours. While this work has made inroads into establishing the neural underpinnings of offending behaviour, some important knowledge gaps remain. First, the extent to which neural abnormalities extend across both rest and task-based contexts in …
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Developmental and life-course pathways for antisocial behaviour among young adults in the Western Cape, South Africa
… and life-course theories explaining antisocial behaviour among 413 young adults in the Western Cape, South Africa. Interviewer-administered questionnaires were used to collect data among 135 youth from lower income communities in Cape Town. A further 278 responses were collected from …
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Predictors of moral behaviour in football
… was to investigate predictors of prosocial and antisocial aspects of morality in football. In Study 1, moral identity, task, and ego orientations were included to predict prosocial and antisocial judgement and behaviour. Prosocial judgement was predicted by task orientation at low levels of ego …
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The Construction of Self-identity and Positive Behavioural Change in Pregnant and Parenting Young Women
… of self-identity and positive change in antisocial behaviour in pregnant and parenting young women. It focused on two related aspects of identity development: (1) individuals’ conceptualizations of their personally salient self-values; and (2) “self-action coherence”: the process of …
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The relationship between attachment and offending within a South African context
… avoidance would be positively associated with antisocial behaviour; and H4, an insecure mother attachment would be more strongly associated with offending than an insecure father or intimate partner attachment. Two groups of participants were recruited: offenders (n = 49) and a community sample …
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The prevalence of traumatic brain injury (TBI) and an investigation of behavioural and executive functioning outcomes (among those who have sustained TBIs) in a sample of male young offenders
Adolescents are at risk for antisocial behaviour as well as for sustaining traumatic brain injuries (TBI; Moffitt, 1993; Williams, Cordan, Mewse, Tonks & Burgess, 2010). International literature has long made known the explicit link that exists between TBI and delinquent behavior (Eslinger, …
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Breaking cycles of violence, one wave at a time : a formative evaluation of the Waves for Change Surf Therapy programme
… to enhance psychosocial wellbeing and reduce antisocial behaviour, and association with antisocial peers. Five evaluation questions were generated using programme documents and a rapid evidence assessment. These were concerned with whether the programme was capable of enhancing psychosocial …
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Mellan klient och rättssystem : Tvångsvård av barn och unga ur socialsekreterares perspektiv
… or abuse, or if the child/young person has an antisocial behaviour. Cases concerning antisocial behaviour are presented in a massive problem centred way, whereas cases concerning parent's neglect or abuse of children are presented in a more vague and ambiguous way. The consequences are that …
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The Prevalence of Traumatic Brain Injury and an Investigation of Behavioural, Emotional and Executive Functioning in a Sample of Male Young Offenders
… associations between criminal offending behaviour and traumatic brain injury (TBI). In young offenders, particularly, TBI is significantly more prevalent than in the general youth population. This association might be explained by the fact that key TBI sequelae (e.g., aggression, …
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School Refusal: from short stay school to mainstream
… and low attainment, poor employment outcomes and antisocial behaviour (Reid 1999, 2002). This small scale research study focuses on a group of young people referred to as school refusers, who experience difficulties attending school associated with anxiety and emotion. This small scale, case study …
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The role of the woman in Gottfried's Tristan : a literary-sociological study
… individuality, "psychological" makeup, social (antisocial) behaviour, as fulfilling a traditional role or representing a new morality, particularly in her interaction with the male, Tristan.
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Preschool children's interpretation of others' history of accuracy
… as well as her propensity for prosocial or antisocial behaviour. Overall, children's performance in these experiments suggests that both 4- and 5-year-olds interpret others' history of accuracy as indicative of knowledge; however, 4-year-olds make a more restricted attribution of knowledge …
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Psychosis and aggression in childhood & adolescence: investigations in clinically referred, inpatient and general population samples
… rates of callous/unemotional traits and parental antisocial behaviour than either ’pure’ group. Independent predictors of psychosis and co-occurring aggression were low IQ, lower scores on theory of mind tasks, internalising problems, exposure to maltreatment, poor educational attainment and …
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A coal mining community in late nineteenth-century Shropshire: frontier settlement or close-knit community?
… of co-operation and mutual help, with little antisocial behaviour. Whilst Madeley had characteristics of both a close- and loose-knit community, the thesis has shown that it could more accurately be described as the former in 1891.
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Anti-social behaviour: local perception and reporting behaviour in a small urban location
… examining how people experience and perceive antisocial behaviour. Anti-social behaviour legislation and centralised policy was initially based on the notion anti-social behaviour was easy to define. Innes’s (2004) signal crimes perspective identified the importance of local, context specific …
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