The relationship between attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, conduct disorder, and psychopathy in adolescent male and female detainees

Behavioral Sciences and the Law

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 577-598

  Sevecke, Kathrin ^a   Kosson, David S ^b   Krischer, Maya K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COMORBIDITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENDER BIAS; HUMAN; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRISONER; PSYCHOPATHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CONDUCT DISORDER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349376640     PISSN: 07353936     EISSN: 10990798     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bsl.870     Document Type: Article

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