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Researchers Analyze The Impact of Youth Serving Time in Adult Prisons
New findings of other MacArthur network scientists challenge common assumptions about teenage criminals.
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For example, a study that has tracked 1,355 serious offenders for three years finds that less than 10% of those involved in a lot of criminal activities at the outset continued to be heavily involved over the years. "A lot of policy is driven by the view that if a kid does a felony assault, he must be a bad actor from here on forward," says study leader Edward Mulvey of the University of Pittsburgh Medical School.
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Still, 57% had at least one more arrest within two years. "Plus, we know arrests represent only the tip of the iceberg. Who really knows how much else they did that they weren't caught for?" asks Adrian Raine, a psychologist at the University of Southern California who studies criminal behavior.
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Date: 9/9/2006
Researchers Find Increased "After School" Stress for Parents When Children are Left Alone
Working parents of school age children often worry about what their children are doing after school in the hours before parents get home from work. And the time is significant:
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“For most full time employed parents, the gap between the end of the school day and the time they arrive home from work is [about] 20-25 hours per week” (Barnett & Gareis, 2006, p. 101), or 4 to 5 hours a day.
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Researchers have found that 44% of 12 year olds were in self-care after school.
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Over one-third (36%) of target children participated in a formal after school program for an average of 11 hours a week.
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One-fifth (21.5%) spent some time unsupervised after school each week, averaging around 10 hours alone or watching younger siblings.
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Date: 8/27/2006
Researchers Compare One Class of Millennial Students and One Class of Generation X
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The August 2006 edition of Consider the Facts reveals differences between one class of Millennial students (those who entered college in 2004) and one class of Generation X students (those who began college in 1994).
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Millennial students of 2004 are more price-conscious and more willing to shop around for the “right” school than the Gen-Xer students of 1994.
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Students in 2004 were more than twice as likely as those in 1994 to say that educational cost was a factor that affected their decision to attend their institution.
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Date: 8/25/2006
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