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Konig, Susanne; Gluck, Judith – Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2012
Previous studies with adults have shown that age has an important influence on laypeople's wisdom theories. However, children's and adolescents' understanding of the concept of wisdom has hardly been investigated. In the current study, 80 children and adolescents completed a questionnaire concerning an event where they had been wise and an event…
Descriptors: Barriers, Accidents, Age, Adolescents
Tolan, Patrick H. – 1985
The concept of juvenile court and juvenile delinquency as distinct from adult crime is grounded in the idea of allowing adolescents more consideration because they are not quite adults, cognitively, psychologically, or socially. These developmental progressions within the individual and complementary societal changes in how the individual is…
Descriptors: Adolescent Development, Adolescents, Behavior Patterns, Delinquency