Bullying at age eight and criminality in adulthood: Findings from the Finnish nationwide 1981 Birth cohort study

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 46, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1211-1219

  Sourander, Andre ^a,b   Brunstein Klomek, Anat ^c   Kumpulainen, Kirsti ^d   Puustjärvi, Anita ^e   Elonheimo, Henrik ^f   Ristkari, Terja ^a   Tamminen, Tuula ^g   Moilanen, Irma ^h   Piha, Jorma ^a   Ronning, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

^c Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

^d KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^e UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN FINLAND   (Finland)

^f Turku University   (Finland)

^g TAMPERE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Finland)

^h OULU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

Author keywords

Childhood; Crime; Longitudinal; Predictors; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BULLYING; CHILD; CRIME; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; OFFENDER; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TIME; VICTIM;

ADULT; BULLYING; CHILD; CRIME; CRIME VICTIMS; CRIMINALS; FEMALE; FINLAND; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TIME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 83655190381     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-010-0292-1     Document Type: Article

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