Risk Factor Community Availability of drugs ✔ 74 Adolescent Problem Behaviors Availability of firearms ✔ ✔ Community laws and norms favorable toward drug use, ✔ ✔ ✔ firearms, and crime Media portrayals of violence ✔ Transitions and mobility ✔ ✔ ✔ Low neighborhood attachment and community organization ✔ ✔ ✔ Extreme economic deprivation ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Family Family history of the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Family management problems ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Family conflict ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Favorable parental attitudes and involvement in the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ School Early and persistent antisocial behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Academic failure beginning in elementary school ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Lack of commitment to school ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Individual/Peer Figure 6: Risk Factors for Health and Behavior Problems Rebelliousness ✔ ✔ ✔ Friends who engage in the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Favorable attitudes toward the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Early initiation of the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ Constitutional factors ✔ ✔ ✔ Source: Catalano, R., and J.D. Hawkins. 1995. Communities That Care: Risk-Focused Prevention Using the Social Development Strategy. Seattle, WA: Developmental Research and Programs, Inc., p. 10. Reprinted with the permission of the authors and of Developmental Research and Programs, Inc. Substance Abuse Delinquency Teenage Pregnancy School Dropout Violence
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