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The Psychology of Adolescent Criminality. Episode 1. When A Teen Breaks The Law
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The worst part often isn’t the offense. It’s the moment the phone rings and a parent hears, “Your child has been involved in an incident,” and everything they thought they knew starts to slide. I’m Kim Lee, a child and adolescent psychotherapist, and I want to take adolescent criminality out of the headline frame and put it back where it belongs: inside real families, real feelings, and real developmental pressures.
We start in the consulting room with a teen caught shoplifting repeatedly. The point isn’t the stolen object. It’s the surge that arrives just before taking it…
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