Verkkothe construction and labelling of some groups of young people as ‘risky’ or ‘troubled’ is driven by frequent reporting in the populist press about so. Verkkodrawing on interviews with 33 young male offenders, incarcerated in swedish prisons, this paper analyzes how they narrate their experiences of growing up, and. Verkkousing peer network data from the prosper study, jacobsen (2020) and jacobsen et al. (2022) recently offered empirical frameworks and. Verkkostudies exploring the connections between criminal conduct and substance abuse in youth have discovered a notable association wherein misuse of. Verkkolabeling theory contends that an acquisition of a criminal status can be very problematic for offenders navigating into adulthood. Verkkothirty years ago, teens who committed crimes were largely treated as “problem kids” by the justice system, and the limited interventions available. Verkkofrom here, our article reviews three main findings: The behavior of both troubled teens and “troubled teens” that caused them to wind up in a tbs;