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Risk behavior and some violation are frequently exhibited in adolescence. However, according to literature, engaging in antisocial activities among adolescents varies depending on the frequency and diversity of activities in which they participate and, above all, the age of onset of participation and may result in greater or lesser criminal engagement. To distinguish between juvenile offenders apprehended by police those whose behavior leads to greater criminal engagement, associated with persistent criminal trajectories, is crucial to the Juvenile Justice System. The objective of this study was to identify and to characterize groups in terms of infraction engagement in a sample of Brazilian adolescents recruited from schools (n = 133) and judicialized adolescents (n = 60), who answered a questionnaire of self-report delinquency. The Ward and K-means methods of cluster analysis were performed to group the adolescents. The comparison of the groups in terms of education, socioeconomic status, and substance use was performed by the chi-square test. The analysis of variance was carried out to compare the means of the variables used to evaluate the levels of criminal engagement. The results showed the formation of five distinct groups characterized by an increasing level of criminal engagement. The first group was not engaged in any criminal activity, while group 5 presented the highest rate of engagement and was responsible for 75 % of the offenses committed in the past year. The latter group also reported a more frequent use of alcohol (X 2 = 10.5; Phi = 0.22; p = 0.03) and marijuana (X 2 = 84.0; Phi = 0.66; p = 0.001). No significant differences were found between the groups with respect to education levels and socioeconomic status. Here, the results are discussed and associated with other studies.
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Komatsu, A.V., Bazon, M.R. (2017). Crime and Antisocial Behaviors in Male Adolescents: An Exploratory Study in the City of Ribeirão Preto, São Paulo Brazil. In: Viano, E. (eds) Cybercrime, Organized Crime, and Societal Responses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-44501-4_12
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