Young offenders and non-offenders are compared on two aspects: Family Adversity Index and Agreement Index between parents' perception and adolescents' self-perception on the behavior problem. Participants comprised 40 adolescents, or rather, 23 were being attended to at Attendance and Support Center for Young People (UNIFESP) and 17 adolescent offenders at the Court for the Welfare of Children and Young People in Santos SP Brazil. Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), Youth Self Report (YSR) and Rutter's Family Adversity Index were employed. The family adversity index was significantly higher for young offenders. Results show that percentage of disagreement scores between the perceptions of behavior problems was higher, albeit not significant, between adolescent offenders and their parents.
Family; adolescents; behavior problems
