Before It's Too Late
Why Some Kids Get Into Trouble--and What Parents Can Do About It

This book was written for parents by clinical psychologist Stanton Samenow, who specializes in dealing with juvenile and adult criminals, and who earlier wrote Inside the Criminal Mind and co-authored The Criminal Personality. His message is very simple: whatever the environmental circumstances, th......more

This is an excellent book for parents of children with conduct disorder, or even oppositional defiance disorder. The author offers a reasonable theory of emerging criminality and some parental remedies rooted in consistency, parental cooperation, and discipline. Although the author situates his reco......more

This is a really good book for parents of kids who display criminal thinking. It can really be helpful if your kids are younger and not too entrenched - to help you to help them and also help you to realize that kids make choices and kids that commit crimes are not necessarily a product of bad paren......more

The book is accurate and provides insight into troubled children’s thinking and actions. He kept wanting to not blame the parents, but all of the interventions he highlights are things parents ought to be doing even if their child doesn’t display anti-social behavior. While I agree that not all chil......more

This is a conveniently curated scientism based view written by a very motivated person. If society were governed by ideas he rejects he'd have been infinitely more sophisticated in what he wrote. On the issues of conflict and cooperation: he's basically a better ideologically positioned lolbert, str......more