Oral language competence, social skills and high-risk boys : what are juvenile offenders trying to tell us? Snow, P. and Powell, M. 2008, Oral language competence, social skills and high-risk boys : what are juvenile offenders trying to tell us?, Children and society, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 16-28. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Oral language competence, social skills and high-risk boys : what are juvenile offenders trying to tell us? Author(s) Snow, P. Powell, M. orcid.org/0000-0001-5092-1308 Journal name Children and society Volume number 22 Issue number 1 Start page 16 End page 28 Total pages 13 Publisher Wiley Place of publication London England Publication date 2008-01 ISSN 0951-0605 1099-0860 Summary A cross-sectional study examining the oral language abilities and social skills of male juvenile offenders is described. Fifty juvenile offenders and 50 non-offending controls completed measures of language processing and production, and measures of social skill and IQ. Information about type of offending, substance use histories and learning/literacy problems was also gathered. Young offenders performed significantly worse on all language and social skill measures, but these differences could not be accounted for on the basis of IQ. Just over half of the young offenders were identified as language impaired. This subgroup was compared with non-language impaired offending peers on a range of variables. The findings have particular implications in the areas of early intervention for high-risk boys and investigative interviewing of juvenile offenders. Language eng Field of Research 170103 Educational Psychology Socio Economic Objective 970117 Expanding Knowledge in Psychology and Cognitive Sciences HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2008, Wiley Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30017065 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Arts and Education Faculty of Health School of Psychology Higher Education Research Group   Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:49:19 EST Fri, 25 Sep 2009, 15:44:51 EST Fri, 25 Sep 2009, 15:47:44 EST Fri, 25 Sep 2009, 15:49:36 EST Fri, 25 Sep 2009, 15:50:46 EST Tue, 22 May 2012, 15:42:13 EST Thu, 10 Jul 2014, 13:56:03 EST Fri, 19 Sep 2014, 10:00:05 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 73 times in TR Web of Science Cited 80 times in Scopus Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 813 Abstract Views, 3 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 14 Aug 2009, 13:49:19 EST