Testing an interactive model of symptom severity in conduct disordered youth: Family relationships, antisocial cognitions, and social-contextual risk

Criminal Justice and Behavior

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 721-738

  Butler, Stephen ^a   Fearon, Pasco ^a   Atkinson, Leslie ^b   Parker, Kevin ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^c Hotel Dieu ^*  (France)

Author keywords

Antisocial thinking; Attachment; Cumulative risk; Delinquency

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249001039     PISSN: 00938548     EISSN: 15523594     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093854807299770     Document Type: Article

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