… For boys who had
been through the juvenile justice system, compared to boys with similar
histories without judicial involvement, the odds of adult judicial interventions
increased almost seven-fold,” says study co-author Richard E. Tremblay, a
professor of psychology, pediatrics and psychiatry at the Université de
Montréal and a researcher at the Sainte-Justine University Hospital
Research Center.
The research
team sought out boys from kindergarten who were at risk for delinquent behavior
and who were enrolled at 53 schools from the poorest neighbourhoods in Montreal.
Some 779 participants were
interviewed annually from the age of 10 until 17 years. By their mid-20s, some
17.6 percent of participants ended up with adult criminal records for
infractions that included homicide (17.9 percent); arson (31.2 percent);
prostitution (25.5 percent); drug possession (16.4 percent) and impaired driving
(8.8 percent).

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