Crime In Effect To Callous-Unemotional Traits

This study was completed over adolescents’ and group crime in effect to callous-unemotional traits, such as being a leader in a crime or participating in gang activity. The experimenters believe that callous-unemotional traits are associated with adolescent crimes. The experiments were completed with adolescents of different backgrounds who were justice-involved. The results were that callous-unemotional traits were related to performing crimes in groups and gang activity. The experiments were focused on age, intelligence, impulse control, and culture. The results of these experiments help with understanding why groups commit acts and how to reduce the influence of these activities with treatments. The study consisted of one thousand, one hundred and sixteen young boys, including boys from the Crossroads study, a previous study completed. All of the participants were from juvenile centers in California, Pennsylvania, and Louisiana. To qualify to participate, the boys had to be first time offenders, between the ages of thirteen and seventeen, and have eligible charges committed, such as battery, theft, or vandalism. The average age of the participants was fifteen, including also half white and almost forty percent black. The rest were non-Latino. The average …show more content…
Participants were required to state if their crime that they became part previous to the experiment was committed as a group or individual. Over half of the participants said they committed the crime with others. Under forty percent of the participants committed their crime as an individual. Next, participants reported if they had ever committed a crime with others. Only forty-five percent of the boys said they had. Only five percent of the participants said they were in a gang in the past six months. The dependent variable in these experiments were the section of the questions, and the independent variable was the types of questions asked for each group of