Examining Delinquency and Drug Use During Later Adolescence

罗彻斯特青少年发展研究是一项对严重犯罪和吸毒的原因及其相关性的纵向调查。这项研究的第一阶段主要由青少年司法和犯罪预防办公室（OJJDP）资助，并得到了国家科学基金会和国家药物滥用研究所（NIDA）的一些补充支持，研究人员每隔六个月跟踪调查一组高危青少年，从七年级和八年级一直到十一年级和十二年级。这笔赠款为第二阶段提供部分支助，该阶段将跟踪青年直至成年早期。研究的目的是了解与犯罪生涯不同阶段有关的社会和心理因素，特别是许多罪犯在成年早期终止职业生涯，以及其他人的犯罪行为的继续和升级。由于第二阶段的大部分数据收集将继续由OJJDP资助，因此国家科学基金会的支持将用于数据分析和研究结果的传播。本文将分析两种主要的理论模型，即相互作用理论和网络理论。此外，问题，如开始，专业化，停止，以及犯罪和吸毒之间的联系将进行审查。由于这项工作，计划出版一些出版物。该项目提供了迄今为止收集的最广泛的犯罪数据集，并且已经为更好地理解导致和防止严重参与犯罪和犯罪的因素作出了重大贡献。相对而言，我们对青春期到成年期的犯罪行为知之甚少，而且几乎没有关于这些年龄段的当代因素与早期态度和行为之间关系的信息。这样做可以更全面地描述犯罪生涯，并扩展对与越轨行为继续或停止有关的因素的理论理解。这项研究的结果有望影响未来几年对青少年犯罪的研究。

The Rochester Youth Development Study is a longitudinal examination of the causes and correlates of serious delinquency and drug use. Phase I of the study, funded primarily by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) with some supplemental support from the National Science Foundation and the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA), followed a sample of high risk youth from the seventh and eighth grades until their eleventh and twelfth grades at six month intervals. This grant provides partial support for Phase II which will follow the youth to early adulthood. The objectives of the study are to understand the social and psychological factors associated with different stages of criminal careers, especially the termination of careers for many offenders during early adulthood, and the continuation and escalation of criminal behavior for others. Since much of the data collection for Phase II will continue to be funded by OJJDP, the NSF support will be used for data analysis and dissemination of findings. Two major theoretical models that are being tested, interactional theory and network theory, will be analyzed. Also, issues such as onset, specialization, desistance, and the link between delinquency and drug use will be examined. A number of publications are planned as a result of this work. This project provides the most extensive delinquency data set assembled to date and already has contributed significantly to a better understanding of the factors that contribute to, as well as insulate against, serious involvement in crime and delinquency. We have relatively little information about criminal involvement at the transition from adolescence to adulthood and virtually no information relating contemporary factors at these ages to earlier attitudes and behaviors. Doing so allows for a fuller description of criminal careers and extends theoretical understanding of factors associated with continution of or desistance from deviance. The results of this research promise to influence the study of delinquency for years to come.