Our study aims to identify the role of the labelling of the Turkish young people in their family and group of friends on the symptoms of depression and deviant behaviors the adolescents display. As a result of the survey study conducted with a sample of 726 high school third grade students in...

In the last period one can notice a high incidence of substance abuse (substance addiction) cases both in romania and in other countries, becoming a problem to the modern society. Persons with substance abuse require long and expensive medical treatments, which are not always effective and do...

We reviewed 39 national government- and nongovernment-sponsored data sets related to substance addiction policy. These data sets describe patients with substance use disorders (SUDs), treatment providers and the services they offer, and/or expenditures on treatment. Findings indicate the...

This article contends that juvenile delinquency may be viewed from a developmental perspective and as such be connected to its penal treatment, of which the purpose is mainly educational. The emergence of antisocial and/or delinquent behavior of minors is characterized as a form of rebellion and...

We study the social interaction of non-smokers and smokers as a sequential game, incorporating insights from social psychology and experimental economics into an economic model. Social norms affect human behavior such that non-smokers do not ask smokers to stop smoking and stay with them, even...

Using a unique panel dataset, we estimate the impact of the military base realignments and closures (BRACs) in Germany on the intensity of criminal activity surrounding the base. We use a fi xed-eff ect model to account for time-invariant unobservables in our panel of 298 military bases for the...

This paper estimates the impacts of religiosity on criminal activity using a city-wide shock to religious sentiment from a 2015 Papal visit. Using daily data on all reported offences between 2010 and 2015 in Philadelphia at the census tract level and a difference-in-differences approach, we...