Life Course Persistent Antisocial Offenders: Drug Usage and Criminal Behavior

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Haley L. Ford ◽  
Kathleen M. Carroll ◽  
Caroline J. Easton ◽  
Deborah Kraemer
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Criminal Behavior ◽  
Drug Usage ◽  
Life Course Persistent

Antisoziales Verhalten im Jugendalter: Entstehungsbedingungen und Verlaufsformen

2001 ◽  
Vol 29 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-311 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Laucht
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Life Course Persistent

Zusammenfassung: Ausmaß und Verbreitung von Gewalt und Delinquenz unter Kindern und Jugendlichen haben in den letzten 15 Jahren kontinuierlich zugenommen. Bei dem Bestreben, dieser Entwicklung entgegenzuwirken, können neuere Erkenntnisse der entwicklungspsychopathologischen und neurobiologischen Forschung wichtige Hilfestellung leisten. In einem Modell von Moffitt werden zwei Entwicklungswege antisozialer Verhaltensprobleme beschrieben, die sich hinsichtlich des Störungsbeginns und -verlaufs unterscheiden: ein Pfad, der durch eine frühzeitig einsetzende und über den Lebenslauf stabile Symptomatik charakterisiert ist (“life-course persistent”), sowie ein Pfad mit einem episodenhaften, auf das Jugendalter begrenzten Auftreten antisozialer Auffälligkeiten (“adolescence-limited”). Während im letzteren Fall die spezifischen Entwicklungsaufgaben und Lebensbedingungen Jugendlicher eine maßgebliche Rolle bei Entstehung und Verlauf spielen, entsteht persistentes antisoziales Verhalten als Resultat eines transaktionalen Prozesses zwischen Kind und Umwelt. Neben psychosozialen Faktoren kommt dabei biologischen Prädispositionen (genetische Belastung) und psychologischen Dispositionen (Temperaments- und Persönlichkeitsmerkmale) eine zentrale Bedeutung zu. Wichtige Aufschlüsse über die zugrunde liegenden Mechanismen versprechen die jüngsten Fortschritte der neurobiologischen und persönlichkeitspsychologischen Forschung. Die Integration beider Ansätze kann dazu beitragen, Maßnahmen der Prävention und Frühintervention zielgruppenorientierter auszurichten und damit wirkungsvoller zu gestalten.

The Developmental Taxonomy

2018 ◽  
pp. 148-158
Author(s):  
Tara Renae McGee ◽  
Terrie E. Moffitt
Keyword(s):  
Gender Differences ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Antisocial Behavior ◽  
Early Onset ◽  
Adult Onset ◽  
Low Level ◽  
Developmental Taxonomy ◽  
Offending Behavior ◽  
Life Course Persistent ◽  
The Life Course

This chapter considers whether the peak in the age–crime curve is a function of active offenders committing more crime during adolescence or a function of more individuals actively offending in the peak years. It discusses the two main and most empirically tested typological groupings: the life-course persistent group and the adolescence limited group. The chapter then reviews the evidence on a theoretically interesting grouping: those who abstain from antisocial and offending behavior. It focuses on the debate regarding whether those who were originally thought to recover from early-onset antisocial behavior have childhood-limited antisocial behavior or exhibit low-level chronic antisocial behavior across the life course. Finally, the chapter discusses how the theory it introduces accounts for adult-onset offending and considers whether there are gender differences that need to be accounted for by the theory.

Diverse Long-Term Effects of Childhood Exposure to Intimate Partner Violence: Development of Externalizing Behaviors in Males and Females

2019 ◽  
pp. 088626051988852
Author(s):  
Henriikka Weir ◽  
Catherine Kaukinen ◽  
Alesha Cameron
Keyword(s):  
Intimate Partner Violence ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Partner Violence ◽  
Externalizing Behaviors ◽  
Developmental Trajectories ◽  
Intimate Partner ◽  
Long Term Effects ◽  
Life Course Persistent ◽  
Males And Females

Using data from all three waves of the Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN) longitudinal cohort study, this article examined the long-term effects of intimate partner violence (IPV) exposure during childhood and early adolescence on subsequent externalizing behaviors (i.e., delinquency, violence, and drug offenses). A propensity score matching (PSM) was employed to match a group of individuals reporting childhood/adolescence IPV exposure to those not exposed to IPV on key variables. Longitudinal latent class analyses (LLCA) were then utilized to estimate the longitudinal developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors separately for the IPV- and non-IPV-exposed males and females and compared with each other. PSM revealed that there were small but significant differences in mean levels of externalizing behaviors between IPV-exposed and non-IPV-exposed youth at Waves 2 and 3. Furthermore, LLCA indicated that there were three distinct developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors among the IPV-exposed males but four distinct developmental trajectories of externalizing behaviors among the IPV-exposed females, non-IPV-exposed males, and non-IPV-exposed females. Overall, the IPV-exposed males had the largest number of life-course-persistent offenders as well as adolescents who started their offending at a very early age but rapidly declined by the end of the study period. However, the non-IPV-exposed males’, albeit smaller, life-course-persistent group displayed by far the highest levels of externalizing behaviors of the entire sample. Females in the present study were largely similar to each other in the development of externalizing behaviors, regardless of IPV exposure. Policy implications are discussed.

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