By Terrie E. Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi, Michael Rutter, Phil A. Silva
Why are ladies hardly delinquent and men delinquent so frequently? this can be one of many key questions addressed in a clean method of intercourse adjustments within the explanations, path and effects of delinquent habit. A multidisciplinary staff of authors current all-new findings from the landmark Dunedin Longitudinal examine and likewise supply new insights into such themes because the significance of puberty, diagnostic concerns in psychiatry, the matter of household violence and the intergenerational transmission of delinquent habit.
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Additional resources for Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study
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Similarly, we first measured partner abuse at phase 21 because this was the first phase in which the majority of Study members would have a serious relationship. Accordingly, we measure different constructs that are part of the antisocial syndrome at different phases of the Study. , observers, parents, teachers, partners, peer informants, police, courts, and the Study members themselves) using a variety of different methods (observations in the Unit, behaviour problem checklists, diagnostic interviews, and official records).
Males and females are most similar in their antisocial behaviour during middle adolescence, at around age 15.
Even cohort-sequential designs enrol multiple cohorts separated by only a few years, and thus have limited capacity to reflect major socio-historical shifts. Accordingly, it is unknown to what extent knowledge about the developmental epidemiology of antisocial behaviour is historically specific. , Cook and Laub, 1998; Rutter and Smith, 1995) – but developmental epidemiology is a new field and strong research designs for estimating epidemiological facts about child and adolescent antisocial behaviour have only become available during the life span of the Dunedin Study members.