Summary
Often, neither parents nor the various professionals who work with children know which problematic children will cease their disruptive or delinquent behaviors and which ones will continue or worsen their behavior over time. Nevertheless, because most of the necessary conditions for later serious and violent juvenile offending begin in childhood, the Study Group on Very Young Offenders strongly urges that efforts to reduce serious forms of delinquency should shift from a focus on adolescent delinquents and more serious chronic juvenile offenders to a focus on child delinquents. To help with this task, the Study Group has presented some important new information on child delinquency, including analyses of epidemiological data, risk and protective factors, early prediction, interventions for disruptive and delinquent children, and juvenile justice system issues. This information will benefit future studies and interventions that attempt to prevent offending among the very young and to change the behavior of those children who are already involved in offending.
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