TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2013//
TI  - Childhood psychopathology predicts adolescence-onset offending: A longitudinal study
JO  - Crime and delinquency
A1  - Buck, Nicholas
A1  - Verhulst, Frank
A1  - Marle, Hjalmar van
A1  - Ende, Jan van der
SP  - 718
EP  - 737
VL  - 59
IS  - 5
N2  - Moffitt, Caspi, Harrington, and Milne (2002) found in a follow-up study that many of the supposedly adolescence-limited offenders had committed offenses past adolescence. This finding raises the question of whether adulthood starts later or whether there are two distinct delinquency types, adolescence limited and adolescence onset, each with its own etiology. The present study tested whether the adolescence-onset group could be predicted by childhood psychopathology, as compared to the adolescence-limited and no-offender groups. In sum, 355 boys and girls were included, who reported on their emotional and behavioral problems when they were 11 to 13 years old and on their self-reported criminal behavior 8 to 13 years later. The findings lend support tothe hypothesis that adolescence-onset offenders can be distinguished from adolescence-limited offenders.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0011-1287
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0011128709336938
ID  - ref1
ER  -