Journal article
Risk factors and risk-based protective factors for violent offending: A study of young Victorians
SA Hemphill, JA Heerde, KE Scholes-Balog
Journal of Criminal Justice | Published : 2016
Abstract
Purpose The present study aims to examine risk factors and risk-based and interactive protective factors for violent offending in a group of 437 young Australians. Methods Participants were recruited into the study when they were in Grade 5 (age 10–11 years) and followed up almost annually until young adulthood (age 18–19 years). Measures of violent offending, risk and protective factors, and demographics were obtained through a modification of the Communities That Care youth survey. The data collected enabled identification of groups of students at-risk of violent offending according to drug use, low family socioeconomic status, and antisocial behavior. Results Very few associations were fo..
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Funding Acknowledgements
The authors are grateful for the financial support of the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01-DA012140) for the International Youth Development Study initial data collection. The content is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute on Drug Abuse or the National Institute of Health. Continued data collection in Victoria, Australia has been supported by three Australian Research Council Discovery Projects (DPO663371, DPO877359, and DP1095744) and an Australian National Health and Medical Research Council grant (project number, 594793). The work of Dr. Heerde and Dr. Scholes-Balog is supported by funding provided through the Learning Sciences Institute Australia at Australian Catholic University.