General Versus Specific Predictors of Male Arrest Trajectories: A Test of the Moffitt and Patterson Theories

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 217-228

  Wiesner, Margit ^a   Capaldi, Deborah M ^b   Kim, Hyoun K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^b OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Childhood predictors; Life span; Offending; Trajectories

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CRIME; DEMOGRAPHY; EGO DEVELOPMENT; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; MALE; PEER GROUP; PRISONER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOPATHY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTISOCIAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; CHILD; CRIME; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; PEER GROUP; PERSONALITY DEVELOPMENT; PRISONERS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84855661847     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-011-9683-1     Document Type: Article

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