Citation

Weisz JR, Martin SL, Walter BR, Fernandez GA. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 1991; 32(5): 783-792.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles 90024.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1991, John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

1918228

Abstract

Which characteristics of violent youth predict adult arrest for property crimes (e.g. burglary), and for personal crimes (e.g. assault)? We addressed this question by focusing on a group of particularly violent and assaultive boys. Separate logistic regression analyses were conducted to predict property and personal crime arrests as a function of adolescent psychiatric diagnosis, behavior problem history, race and IQ. Property crime arrest was predicted by an adolescent history of property offenses, conduct disorder diagnosis, and race (more arrests among non-whites than whites). Personal crime arrest was predicted by adolescent history of property offenses and adolescent history of substance abuse.

Language: en