Bibliographic record
Abstract
Antisocial and Violent Youth, edited by Jalal Shamsie, Sorrel Nicholl, and Kirsten Madsen, Toronto, Canada, Lugus Publications, 1999, 381 pp, $35.50 Cdn or $24.00 US. Juvenile violence and criminal behavior is an increasing problem in the United States. Almost daily there are media reports of teenage violence. Juvenile family courts and the juvenile justice system are inundated with children and adolescents committing acts of violence at younger ages. Physicians are being asked to recognize and prevent potential violence in youths. Although a number of journal publications have looked at various aspects of violence in children, there is limited work dedicated to discussing criminality as a whole in this young population. In Antisocial and Violent Youth, the editors have collected research from over 600 authorities in juvenile antisocial behaviors to comprehensively review all of the existing data. The book is organized in an outline format. Topies progress from a general overview of the various risk factors that lead to violence to a discussion of specific topics such as substance abuse and juvenile sex offenders. The book is a fairly exhaustive look at all of the various factors that contribute to juvenile delinquency and violence. The chapters are concise reviews of the current research literature in all areas of juvenile violent and antisocial behaviors. As a whole, this text is extremely well referenced, with pertinent articles cited at the end of each section. The book is very easy to read and is ideal for the clinician or researcher who wants to quickly review the data on specific aspects of violence. There are 8 chapters in all. The first two chapters discuss antisocial and aggressive behaviors and examine both innate and environmental factors contributing to these behaviors in youths. Chapters 3 and 4 discuss relevant psychiatric disorders, including conduct, oppositional defiant, attention deficit, and disruptive behavior disorders. Chapter 5 discusses juvenile offenders and includes a section on sex offenders. The remainder of the book reviews the comorbid psychiatric disorders associated with this population, including substance abuse, childhood abuse, child neglect, and suicide. Treatment modalities are discussed throughout the text. Pharmacological, family, and individual psychological treatment options are included at the end of each chapter. The major weakness of this book is the authors' tendency to be overly brief and concise at times. Many of the chapters merely summarize the data without any subsequent discussion or reflection. The book would have benefited from expanded commentaries from the editors about the data presented in the various articles. When comments are included in chapters, they are often sparse and limited to a few sentences. A second weakness of this volume lies in its outline format. If used as a reference, this is a desirable and helpful feature; however, if the reader is attempting to read the book as a whole, the material is presented in a way that renders it overly dense and disjointed. These weaknesses aside, the book contains a wealth of important and relevant information for both clinicians and researchers and is highly recommended. Michele Casoli-Reardon, M.D. Joseph V. Penn, M.D. Brown Medical School; Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior; Division of Child Psychiatry; Rhode Island Hospital; Providence, Rhode Island
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".