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Civic engagement and delinquency in youth

2006· dissertation· W7132905383 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Naomi Slonim

Bibliographic record

VenueTSpace · 2006
Typedissertation
Language
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicYouth Development and Social Support
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsProsocial behaviorCivic engagementJuvenile delinquencyEconomic JusticePublic engagementSample (material)Youth engagement
DOInot available

Abstract

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When youth feel connected to the authorities and institutions of their communities, they are less likely to violate norms and more likely to demonstrate prosocial behaviour (Eccles & Gootman, 2001). Delinquent youth pose a challenge to educators and clinicians as they often marginalize themselves from families and institutions, such as schools, that may be able to positively influence their outcomes. This study examined the relationship between delinquency and civic engagement, traditionally two separate areas of research. It also provided information regarding the contextual influences on civic engagement beliefs (e.g., family, school, community) in delinquent youth. In accordance with a hypothesized model, relationships between delinquent attitudes and behaviours, civic engagement attitudes and behaviours, support for civic engagement attitudes and behaviours (family, school and community) and opportunities for civic engagement were examined. The sample consisted of 151 adolescents aged 14-18 years with a range of delinquent behaviour and experience with the justice system from young offender and public school sites in the Greater Toronto Area. Questionnaire measures were used to obtain demographic information, ratings of civic engagement attitudes and behaviours and support for civic engagement attitudes and behaviours. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with youth in relation to their perceived opportunities for civic engagement, experiences with civic engagement, self-reported delinquency and history with the justice system. There were significant but modest negative correlations between: (1) delinquent behaviours and attitudes and civic engagement behaviours and attitudes, and (2) delinquent behaviours and attitudes and opportunities for civic engagement. Family support was shown to have a mediating effect on the relationship between: (1) delinquent attitudes and civic engagement behaviours, and (2) delinquent attitudes and civic engagement attitudes. Youths' reported experiences with civic engagement differed by age, race, socioeconomic status, sample type (young offender and public school) and community involvement. These findings are discussed in terms of their theoretical and clinical implications. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not 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.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: Qualitative
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.163
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

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.

Opus teacher head0.049
GPT teacher head0.373
Teacher spread0.323 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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Published2006
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