Search for dissertations about: "juvenile delinquency"

Showing result 6 - 10 of 11 swedish dissertations containing the words juvenile delinquency.

  2. 6. Juvenile and adult criminality : relationships to platelet MAO activity, triiodothyronine, ADHD, conduct disorder and psychopathy

    Author : Per Olof Alm; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Debut age; criminality; risk; monoamine oxidase; triiodothyronine; conduct disorder; psychopathy; juvenile delinquency; longitudinal research;

    Abstract : Indicators for persistent risk criminality in a group of grown up juvenile delinquents were investigated. The subjects had been examined In 'Young Lawbreakers': a study of 192 boys from an urban area, aged 11-14 years in 1959-1963. They had committed crime against property, serious enough for prosecution if not being underaged. READ MORE

  4. 7. Risking antisociality : individual and social-interaction factors

    Author : Jenny Freidenfelt Liljeberg; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
    Keywords : Antisociality; juvenile delinquency; psychopathy tendencies; hyperactivity; personality traits; adolescence; school; family; friends; subgroups;

    Abstract : Antisociality is a major problem in societies all over the world. Knowledge that can help to prevent or change antisociality is thus important. Problems of antisocial nature usually begin in childhood or early adolescence and it is therefore important to study it in the course of development in order to trace its underlying causes. READ MORE

  5. 8. Social control and socialisation : the role of morality as a social mechanism in adolescent deviant behaviour

    Author : Robert Svensson; Carl-Gunnar Janson; Marie Torstensson; Stockholms universitet; []
    Keywords : SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; Sociology; Sociologi;

    Abstract : The object of this doctoral dissertation is to study the processes and mechanisms that restrain adolescents from committing deviant and criminal acts. The framework is that when the socialisation process functions well, and norms and values are internalised, an individual will develop a moral sense as to what is right and wrong. READ MORE

  6. 9. Epidemiological studies of suicide : classification bias, drug use, and social circumstances

    Author : Charlotte Björkenstam; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : Despite the decline in suicide rates in Sweden during the past decades, suicide still constitutes a severe public health problem and is a cause of death that to a large extent could be prevented. In 2008 the Swedish Parliament ratified the Swedish government’s suggestion of a ‘Vision Zero’ policy for suicide. READ MORE

  7. 10. Adverse life events, psychiatric morbidity, and mortality : epidemiological studies of socioeconomic inequalities from a life course perspective

    Author : Emma Björkenstam; Karolinska Institutet; Karolinska Institutet; []
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    Abstract : The overall aim with this dissertation was to increase the knowledge on the association between adverse life events, and psychiatric morbidity and mortality, and the role of socioeconomic position from a life course perspective. In Study I we examined the association between socioeconomic position, adverse childhood experiences, and psychotropic medication in young adulthood, using parental educational level as measure of socioeconomic position. READ MORE