Motivations for adolescent offending and truancy from school: retrospective interviews with adults recently released from a custodial prison sentence in England

This qualitative study considers the development of adolescent offending and examines a range of potential causes rooted in the issues of truancy, peer pressure, and educational and parental disengagement. Ten adult offenders recently released from prison were accessed through a probation service in...

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Main Authors: Stephen Filkin, Dara Mojtahedi, Dominic Willmott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-06-01
Series:Heliyon
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844022010507