Birth Complications Combined with Early Maternal Rejection at Age 1 Year Predispose to Violent Crime at Age 18 Years

Archives of General Psychiatry

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 1994, Pages 984-988

  Raine, Adrian ^a   Brennan, Patricia ^a   Mednick, Sarnoff A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b The Capital Region   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PERINATAL CARE; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; RISK FACTOR; VIOLENCE;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; CHILD CARE; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CRIME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LABOR COMPLICATIONS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK FACTORS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, P.H.S.; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0028071852     PISSN: 0003990X     EISSN: 15383636     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archpsyc.1994.03950120056009     Document Type: Article

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