TY  - JOUR
AU  - Hill, Patrick L
AU  - Roberts, Brent W
AU  - Grogger, Jeffrey T
AU  - Guryan, Jonathan
AU  - Sixkiller, Karen
TI  - Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior, and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other than Cognitive Ability: A Review of the Intervention Literature
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 16698
PY  - 2011
Y2  - January 2011
DO  - 10.3386/w16698
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16698
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w16698.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Patrick Hill
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
603 E. Daniel St.
Champaign, Il 61820
E-Mail: phill1@illinois.edu

Brent W. Roberts
Department of Psychology 603 East Daniel Street
University of Illinois
Champaign, IL 61820
E-Mail: broberts@cyrus.psych.uiuc.edu

Jeffrey Grogger
University of Chicago
Harris School of Public Policy
1307 E. 60th Street
Chicago, IL. 60637
Tel: 773/542-3533
Fax: 773/702-0926
E-Mail: jgrogger@uchicago.edu

Jonathan Guryan
Northwestern University
Institute for Policy Research
2040 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208
Tel: 847/467-7144
E-Mail: j-guryan@northwestern.edu

Karen Sixkiller
Department of Psychology
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
603 E. Daniel St.
Champaign, IL 61820
E-Mail: sixkill1@illinois.edu
M1  - published as Patrick L. Hill, Brent W. Roberts, Jeffrey T. Grogger, Jonathan Guryan, Karen Sixkiller. "Decreasing Delinquency, Criminal Behavior, and Recidivism by Intervening on Psychological Factors Other Than Cognitive Ability: A Review of the Intervention Literature," in Philip Cook, Jens Ludwig, Justin McCrary, editors, "Controlling Crime: Strategies and Tradeoffs" University of Chicago Press (2011)

M3  - presented at "Economical Crime Control Conference", January 15-16, 2010
AB  - Research on the causes of delinquency has a long research history, often with an undue focus on how cognitive ability serves as the main predictor of delinquent activity. The current review examines interventions that focus on psychological factors other than cognitive ability, and discusses how several of these programs have demonstrated efficacy in reducing delinquent behavior. Our review uncovers certain themes shared by a number of effective interventions. First, these interventions tend to emphasize rigorous and consistent implementation. Second, effective interventions often incorporate the family environment. Third, several effective interventions have focused on promoting adaptive social skills. In conclusion, our review discusses the possibility that these interventions have proven efficacious in part because they promote adaptive personality trait development.
ER  -