Assignment task: Helping adolescents to understand and recognize their own strengths and abilities can contribute much to improved self-esteem, self-awareness, and recognition of personal rights and responsibilities. These, in turn, can propel youth out of high-risk situations and deviant behavior. Although a good predictor of a juvenile becoming a criminal is whether he or she was a delinquent, Sampson and Laub have a different theory.
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Q1. Is it always going to be the case that delinquents grow up to be criminals?
Q2. Do you agree with Robert Sampson and John Laub that people can change the path they are on as a result of transitions that give them "social capital"?
Q3. What are some things juveniles might value as "social capital"?