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Learning Disabilities and Delinquent Behaviors among Adolescents: A Comparison of Those with and without Comorbidity
- Source :
- Deviant Behavior. 36:200-220
- Publication Year :
- 2014
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2014.
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Abstract
- Research is inconclusive on whether adolescents with learning disabilities (LD) engage in more delinquency than adolescents without such deficits. Mixed results may result from a failure to account for the effects of co-occurring disabilities. Using the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health, this study examines delinquency among adolescents without disabilities to youth with LD, Attention Disorder Symptoms (ADS), and comorbid LD/ADS. Results indicate no significant differences in property offenses, or alcohol, tobacco, and marijuana use; however, youth with LD reported significantly more violence than non-disabled youth. Findings illustrate the heterogeneous effects various disabilities have on delinquent behavior. Future research and policy implications will be discussed.
- Subjects :
- Longitudinal study
Sociology and Political Science
Social Psychology
Attention disorders
medicine.disease
Comorbidity
Developmental psychology
Clinical Psychology
Marijuana use
Learning disability
medicine
Juvenile delinquency
medicine.symptom
Psychology
Law
Clinical psychology
Adolescent health
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15210456 and 01639625
- Volume :
- 36
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Deviant Behavior
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........46813c0f8cb38a1e2cdb1fe5e8f152b6