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Article 1: ‘Aging out of adolescent delinquency: Results from a longitudinal sample of youth
and young adults’
Yes the introduction and the literature review address relevant topics that lead into the
study. The various aspects of the adolescents and teen crime behaviors has been analyzed that
has to the development and elimination of the psychosocial complexes – are described well
and properly.
Age group classification is not done properly, neither in the literature review nor in
the introduction. The adolescence on the overall has been mentioned.
The researchers of this study uses binary regression model to calculate the results
which is appropriate as the results are analyzed in a quantitative manner.
The results follow the research hypotheses but the development of criminal behavior
in the child has not been elucidated.
The results are presented with clarity and there is no bias in the same, whatsoever.
The results elucidates the finding in congruence with the research objectives and hypotheses.
In the discussion, there is a complete evidence based support to the findings and a
critical analysis has been done.
The manuscript advance knowledge to the higher research settings.
I would have used a mixed method design in order to explore the research aim further.
Article 2: ‘On Public Protest, Violence, and Street Gangs’
It is to be noted that in this research, there is no clear introduction and literature
review that address the relevant topics that lead into the study.

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As the research article deals with social and group behaviors in the development of
anti – social behaviors but there is no clear background, introduction or literature review to
address the purpose of research.
The researchers of this study use a narrative review to describe and elaborate the
topic.
The results follow the research hypotheses but with digression.
The results are incongruent and lacks clarity.
The discussion part is elaborated well and the critical analysis of the data is done
properly and with much explanations which is an important component of the study.
The manuscript advance knowledge to the higher research settings.
On an alternative note, a systematic literature review could have helped the purpose of
the study.
Article 3: ‘When Twitter Fingers Turn to Trigger Fingers: a Qualitative Study of Social
Media-Related Gang Violence’
While the introduction is written and supported well by evidences, the literature
review is lacking in content.
The literature review has not been undertaken properly by the researchers of this
study. The problems pertaining to the online internet based conflict leading to offline
violence are not researches by many articles and this forms a difficulty in the literature
review.