(n.) Failure or omission of duty; a fault; a misdeed; an offense; a misdemeanor; a crime.
Example Sentences:
(1) Among 371 adult sexual delinquents, there were only 14 women.
(2) The purpose of this study was to test an empirically based prediction model of school dropout on a sample of 137 juvenile delinquents, some who have dropped out and some who have remained in school.
(3) However, prosocial aspects of films dealing with delinquency may exert a positive influence on the juvenile delinquent.
(4) Relationships between MMPI scales and criteria were evaluated to determine if the MMPI is racially biased with a juvenile delinquent population.
(5) A comparative analysis of the cases indicates that penal care measures are predominantly effective in those cases where the delinquents are subjected to intensive expert diagnosis, therapeutic care and vocational counselling and vocational aidmeasures at the commencement, during and subsequent to their respective periods of confinement.
(6) By definition, illicit drug use is delinquent behavior.
(7) The drawings of 20 male adolescent delinquents were compared to a group of 20 normal male adolescents in order to discover whether any hypothesized differences existed.
(8) While violent behavior and delinquency in youth have been extensively described, the different patterns of violence that adolescents are subjected to in their families are far less known.
(9) How self-reported delinquency is scored is not as critical as previously thought.
(10) The author gives a critical account of the development of views regarding the imputability of sexual delinquents and the possibility of protective therapy in sexual deviations.
(11) This study examined recidivism rates in work-oriented (N = 30) and communication-oriented (N = 30) juvenile delinquency programs for males.
(12) Alcohol and drug use were measured by means of the Delinquency Checklist (DCL), a self-report measure of delinquent behavior first developed by Short and Nye.
(13) The effectiveness of a time-out intervention for adolescent psychiatric patients, adjudicated (delinquent) youth, and behaviorally disordered youngsters was explored in this study.
(14) The delinquency rate for student loans is currently about 11%, and has been sharply rising since 2005, according to Bloomberg data.
(15) A comparative study of the syndrome of fantasy-making was carred out in 65 juvenile delinquents (psychopathy, early organic lesions of the brain, schizophrenia).
(16) However, the young drinking offenders did differ from the delinquents on measures of social environment.
(17) In order to prevent patients from stealing, two categories of delinquents are to be taken into consideration: Those who suffer from somatic diseases and psychoses, e.g.
(18) The opposition of specialists avoided the enforcement of the 1953 23rd december law settling the compulsory therapy of drug-addicted delinquents in France.
(19) The performance of institutionalized delinquent youngsters on paired associate learning tasks was investigated to determine whether level of aspiration (LOA) statements were associated with improved performance under varying feedback conditions.
(20) Clinical and epidemiological evidence is presented indicating that many more black delinquent children and their families fail to receive needed psychiatric and medical services than do white delinquents.
Overdue
Definition:
(a.) Due and more than due; delayed beyond the proper time of arrival or payment, etc.; as, an overdue vessel; an overdue note.
Example Sentences:
(1) After Cameron wasted an overlap opportunity with a feeble cross into Elliot’s arms, Mark Hughes made an overdue substitution and sent on Peter Crouch.
(2) The economist has managed to persuade fellow EU leaders to release a long-overdue €8bn (£6.8bn) tranche of aid – a lifeline without which the country would have gone bankrupt – but still faces the huge challenges of negotiating a new bailout agreement with international lenders, passing the budget with a majority vote and concluding a debt reduction deal, outlined in the latest €130bn rescue programme for the nation, in the coming weeks.
(3) But international analysts have called the recovery a dead cat bounce – and the leadership’s reputation with its own people for sound management, along with the promise for international investors that the government was on track for overdue economic reforms, has suffered a serious blow.
(4) Ahead of Friday's second reading of his bill, which calls for tougher rules on advertising and caps on loan sizes and charges, Blomfield said tough regulation of the sector was long overdue.
(5) On these counts it scored and scored again, and, moreover, it seems likely to lead to long overdue change and protection for people who cannot defend themselves.
(6) The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, has called the trials a long-overdue effort to obtain justice against war criminals four decades after Bangladesh split from Pakistan.
(7) A circadian reappraisal of drug effects in general is overdue.
(8) In a recent report the Macroeconomic Policy Institute said the refugees would boost the German economy and “act almost like a stimulus programme”, by forcing long overdue investments in Germany’s weakened infrastructure.
(9) This is long overdue and I had urged this step in my recent book on Rome,” Fischer told AAP from Oslo.
(10) His rent of $380 for the year is overdue and, although part-way through his training as a lab technician, Douda doesn’t have a job.
(11) Huw Evans, deputy director general at the ABI, said: "The review of the Riot Damages Act is overdue, but government proposals to drastically cut back compensation are at odds with its intention to retain the principle that the state is responsible for the costs of riot damage, that has proved its worth for taxpayers for over 100 years.
(12) Like Barak, the Palestinian leader felt that permanent status negotiations were long overdue; unlike Barak, he did not think that this justified doing away with the interim obligations.
(13) This development is long overdue,” Delano Seiveright said.
(14) Critical evaluation of serum bactericidal titres is long overdue.
(15) He may be victim of an incorrigible cronyism, and his overdue attempt to reform Britain’s welfare state has left many rough edges, some of them inexcusable.
(16) A negotiated settlement is long overdue, but it will only happen if strong international pressure, including from the US, is exerted on the Saudis.
(17) Since November 2013, Brockmeyer has paid off another three overdue tax bills totalling $64,599.
(18) A new cascading and embracing principle of devolution and nationalism is again surely well overdue.
(19) The market drop is overdue.” In a fresh sign that the Chinese economy has weakened, business magazine Caixin reported on Tuesday that China’s national rail freight volumes declined by a tenth in 2015, their biggest ever annual decline.
(20) A treaty to bring the arms trade under control is long overdue, but it must be a treaty with teeth.