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Little, Michelle; Steinberg, Laurence – Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, 2006
This study examined a model of the simultaneous and interactive influence of social context, psychosocial attitudes, and individual maturity on the prediction of urban adolescent drug dealing. Five factors were found to significantly increase adolescents' opportunity for drug selling: low parental monitoring, poor neighborhood conditions, low…
Descriptors: Neighborhoods, Maturity (Individuals), Adolescents, Peer Groups
Steinberg, Laurence – Educational Leadership, 2011
Understanding the nature of brain development in adolescence helps explain why adolescents can vacillate so often between mature and immature behavior. Early and middle adolescence, in particular, are times of heightened vulnerability to risky and reckless behavior because the brain's reward center is easily aroused, but the systems that control…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Brain, Adolescent Development, Age Differences