Sports Participation and Juvenile Delinquency: A Meta-Analytic Review

Participation in sports activities is very popular among adolescents, and is frequently encouraged among youth. Many psychosocial health benefits in youth are attributed to sports participation, but to what extent this positive influence holds for juvenile delinquency is still not clear on both the theoretical and empirical level. There is much controversy on whether sports participation should be perceived as a protective or a risk factor for the development of juvenile delinquency. A multilevel meta-analysis of 51 published and unpublished studies, with 48 independent samples containing 431 effect sizes and N = 132,366 adolescents, was conducted to examine the relationship between sports participation and juvenile delinquency and possible moderating factors of this association. The results showed that there is no overall significant association between sports participation and juvenile delinquency, indicating that adolescent athletes are neither more nor less delinquent than non-athletes. Some study, sample and sports characteristics significantly moderated the relationship between sports participation and juvenile delinquency. However, this moderating influence was modest. Implications for theory and practice concerning the use of sports to prevent juvenile delinquency are discussed. Keywords Sports participation Juvenile delinquency Multilevel meta-analysis Revie

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Probabilistic and progressive deblended far-infrared and sub-millimetre point source catalogues: I. Methodology and first application in the COSMOS field

Context. Single-dish far-infrared (far-IR) and sub-millimetre (sub-mm) point source catalogues and their connections with galaxy catalogues at other wavelengths are of paramount importance to studying galaxy evolution. However, due to the large mismatch in spatial resolution, cross-matching galaxies detected at different wavelengths is not straightforward. Aims. This work aims to develop the next-generation deblended far-IR and sub-mm catalogues in deep extragalactic survey fields, by extracting photometry at the positions of known sources. We present the first application of our methodology in the COSMOS field. Methods. Our progressive deblending used the Monte Carlo Markov chain (MCMC)-based Bayesian probabilistic framework known as XID+. The deblending process started from the Spitzer/MIPS 24 μm data, using an initial prior list composed of sources selected from the COSMOS2020 catalogue and radio catalogues from the VLA and the MeerKAT surveys, based on spectral energy distribution (SED) modelling which predicts fluxes of the known sources at the deblending wavelength. To speed up flux prediction, we made use of a neural network-based emulator. After deblending the 24 μm data, we proceeded to the Herschel PACS (100 and 160 μm) and SPIRE wavebands (250, 350 and 500 μm). Each time we constructed a tailor-made prior list based on the predicted fluxes of the known sources, taking into account the deblended photometry from the previous steps. Results. Using simulated far-IR and sub-mm sky, we detailed the performance of our deblending pipeline. After validation with simulations, we then deblended the real observations from 24 to 500 μm and compared with blindly extracted catalogues and previous versions of deblended catalogues. As an additional test, we deblended the SCUBA-2 850 μm map and compared our deblended fluxes with ALMA measurements, demonstrating a higher level of flux accuracy compared to previous results. We publicly release our XID+ deblended point source catalogues, including best estimates and posterior probability distribution functions. These deblended long-wavelength data, which are cross-matched with multi-band photometry by construction, are crucial for studies such as deriving the fraction of dust-obscured star formation and better separation of quiescent galaxies from dusty star-forming galaxies.</p