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Improved Educational Achievement as a Path to Desistance
Author(s) -
Grigorenko Elena L.,
Hart Lesley,
Hein Sascha,
Kovalenko Julia,
Naumova Oxana Yu.
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
new directions for child and adolescent development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.628
H-Index - 59
eISSN - 1534-8687
pISSN - 1520-3247
DOI - 10.1002/cad.20290
Subject(s) - psychology , path (computing) , developmental psychology , path analysis (statistics) , mathematics education , academic achievement , computer science , machine learning , programming language
In this article we present a summary of the literature on the associations between learning difficulties/disabilities and juvenile delinquency. This literature is almost a hundred years old, but, although reportedly demonstrating the low academic achievement–delinquency connection, contains numerous unanswered questions regarding the frequency, strength, direction, stability, and causality of these associations. We then use this literature to contextualize the research taking place at the Houston Learning Disabilities (LD) Hub, a member of the LD Centers and Hubs Network, supported by National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). In doing so, we present our previous studies and our current research. We conclude by discussing a number of shortcomings in the literature, some—but far from all—of which we hope to address in our ongoing work.