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Risk Factor<br />

Community<br />

Availability of drugs ✔<br />

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Adolescent Problem Behaviors<br />

Availability of firearms ✔ ✔<br />

Community laws and norms favorable toward drug use, ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

firearms, and crime<br />

Media portrayals of violence ✔<br />

Transitions and mobility ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Low neighborhood attachment and community organization ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Extreme economic deprivation ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Family<br />

Family history of the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Family management problems ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Family conflict ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Favorable parental attitudes and involvement in the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

School<br />

Early and persistent antisocial behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Academic failure beginning in elementary school ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Lack of commitment to school ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Individual/Peer<br />

Figure 6: Risk Factors for Health and Behavior Problems<br />

Rebelliousness ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Friends who engage in the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Favorable attitudes toward the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Early initiation of the problem behavior ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Constitutional factors ✔ ✔ ✔<br />

Source: Catalano, R., and J.D. Hawkins. 1995. Communities That Care: Risk-Focused Prevention Using the Social Development<br />

Strategy. Seattle, WA: Developmental Research and Programs, Inc., p. 10. Reprinted with the permission of the authors<br />

and of Developmental Research and Programs, Inc.<br />

Substance Abuse<br />

Delinquency<br />

Teenage Pregnancy<br />

School Dropout<br />

Violence

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