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Childhood predictors differentiate life-course persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial pathways among males and females

MOFFITT, TERRIE E., CASPI, AVSHALOM·2001·Development and Psychopathology

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This article reports a comparison on childhood risk factors of males and females exhibiting childhood-onset and adolescent-onset antisocial behavior, using data from the Dunedin longitudinal study. Childhood-onset delinquents had childhoods of inadequate parenting, neurocognitive problems, and temperament and behavior problems, whereas adolescent-onset delinquents did not have these pathological backgrounds. Sex comparisons showed a male-to-female ratio of 10:1 for childhood-onset delinquency but a sex ratio of only 1.5:1 for adolescence-onset delinquency. Showing the same pattern as males, childhood-onset females had high-risk backgrounds but adolescent-onset females did not. These findings are consistent with core predictions from the taxonomic theory of life-course persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial behavior.

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Authors: MOFFITT, T. E., & CASPI, A.
Affiliations: University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
ORCID: MOFFITT, TERRIE E.
CASPI, AVSHALOM
Venue: Development and Psychopathology
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Published: 2001-05-16
Volume: 13
Issue: 2
Pages: 355-375
ISSN: 0954-5794 (ISSN-L)
1469-2198
DOI: 10.1017/s0954579401002097
OpenAlex: W2058914725
Cited by: 1,669
References: 0
Citations by year: 2026: 20 · 2025: 30 · 2024: 48 · 2023: 47 · 2022: 55 · 2021: 47 · 2020: 127 · 2019: 53 · 2018: 70 · 2017: 84 · 2016: 90 · 2015: 99 · 2014: 97 · 2013: 108 · 2012: 98
FWCI: 143.30
Type: journal article
Language: en
Open access: closed
Licence: www.cambridge.org/core/terms (unspecified)
Locations: Development and Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
PubMed (publishedVersion)
Research Portal (King's College London) (submittedVersion)
Funders: National Institutes of Health (5r01mh056344-03)
National Institute of Mental Health (MH-49414, MH 45070, R01MH045070, MH-56344)
Topics: Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Crime Patterns and Interventions
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending
Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
Keywords: sex differences, childhood risk factors, parenting
MeSH terms: Adolescent, Adolescent Behavior, Antisocial Personality Disorder, Cognition Disorders, Female, Humans, Male, Parent-Child Relations, Risk Factors, Sex Factors, Temperament, Time Factors, Parenting

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