False confessions to police and their relationship with conduct disorder, ADHD, and life adversity

Personality and Individual Differences

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 696-701

  Gudjonsson, Gisli H ^a   Sigurdsson, Jon Fridrik ^b,c   Sigfusdottir, Inga Dora ^c,d   Young, Susan ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ICELAND   (Iceland)

^c REYKJAVIK UNIVERSITY   (Iceland)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

ADHD; Conduct disorder; Epidemiology; False confessions; Life adversity; Offending

Indexed keywords

EID: 84856963093     PISSN: 01918869     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2011.12.025     Document Type: Article

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