Psychology Today | 19.01.2026 05:35
In the class of things that happen so often or predictably as to become truisms are the high-risk activities that teenagers frequently engage in, like driving too fast, using alcohol or drugs, unprotected sex, and delinquency. Decades of research report that across Western countries, delinquent behaviors rise sharply from age 10 until age 16 and fall off just as sharply in late adolescence and early adulthood, a phenomenon referred to as the “age-crime curve” (Scott & Steinberg, 2008).
