Evaluating the positive and negative benefits of crime: Development and validation of the Decisional Balance Scale for Adolescent Offenders (DBS-AO)

Mandy J. Jordan, Richard Rogers, Craig S. Neumann and Bradley Norlander

Journal of Criminal Justice, 2013, vol. 41, issue 2, 108-114

Abstract: The current study focuses on the development and validation of the Decisional Balance Scale for Adolescent Offenders (DBS-AO). This measure was designed to systematically evaluate adolescent offenders’ motivation to end or maintain their criminal behaviors, a critical yet missing component for most assessment measures and treatment programs focused on adolescent offenders.

Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2012.11.003

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