The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure
Abstract Background Although a pathway from childhood behavioural disorders to criminal offending is well established, the aetiological processes remain poorly understood. Also, it is not clear if attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is predictive of crime in the absence of comorbid disru...
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crwiley:10.1002/cbm.1931 2024-09-15T18:25:40+00:00 The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure Savolainen, Jukka Mason, W. Alex Bolen, Jonathan D. Chmelka, Mary B. Hurtig, Tuula Ebeling, Hanna Nordström, Tanja Taanila, Anja National Institute on Drug Abuse of the National Institutes of Health 2014 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cbm.1931 https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fcbm.1931 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/cbm.1931 en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health volume 25, issue 5, page 375-388 ISSN 0957-9664 1471-2857 journal-article 2014 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.1931 2024-07-30T04:18:09Z Abstract Background Although a pathway from childhood behavioural disorders to criminal offending is well established, the aetiological processes remain poorly understood. Also, it is not clear if attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is predictive of crime in the absence of comorbid disruptive behaviour disorder (DBD). Hypothesis We examined two research questions: (1) Does ADHD have a unique effect on the risk of criminal offending, independently of DBD? (2) Is the effect of childhood behavioural disorders on criminal offending direct or mediated by adolescent processes related to school experience, substance misuse and peers? Method Structural equation modelling, with latent variables, was applied to longitudinally collected data on 4644 men from the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study. Results Both ADHD and DBD separately predicted felony conviction risk. Most of these effects were mediated by adolescent alcohol use and low academic performance. The effect of DBD was stronger and included a direct pathway to criminal offending. Conclusion Findings were more consistent with the life course mediation hypothesis of pathways into crime than the behavioural continuity path, in that the effects of each disorder category were mediated by heavy drinking and educational failure. Preventing these adolescent risk outcomes may be an effective approach to closing pathways to criminal behaviour amongst behaviourally disordered children. However, as there was some evidence of a direct pathway from DBD, effective treatments targeting this disorder are also expected to reduce criminal offending . Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Article in Journal/Newspaper Northern Finland Wiley Online Library Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health 25 5 375 388 |
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Abstract Background Although a pathway from childhood behavioural disorders to criminal offending is well established, the aetiological processes remain poorly understood. Also, it is not clear if attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is predictive of crime in the absence of comorbid disruptive behaviour disorder (DBD). Hypothesis We examined two research questions: (1) Does ADHD have a unique effect on the risk of criminal offending, independently of DBD? (2) Is the effect of childhood behavioural disorders on criminal offending direct or mediated by adolescent processes related to school experience, substance misuse and peers? Method Structural equation modelling, with latent variables, was applied to longitudinally collected data on 4644 men from the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study. Results Both ADHD and DBD separately predicted felony conviction risk. Most of these effects were mediated by adolescent alcohol use and low academic performance. The effect of DBD was stronger and included a direct pathway to criminal offending. Conclusion Findings were more consistent with the life course mediation hypothesis of pathways into crime than the behavioural continuity path, in that the effects of each disorder category were mediated by heavy drinking and educational failure. Preventing these adolescent risk outcomes may be an effective approach to closing pathways to criminal behaviour amongst behaviourally disordered children. However, as there was some evidence of a direct pathway from DBD, effective treatments targeting this disorder are also expected to reduce criminal offending . Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. |
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Savolainen, Jukka Mason, W. Alex Bolen, Jonathan D. Chmelka, Mary B. Hurtig, Tuula Ebeling, Hanna Nordström, Tanja Taanila, Anja The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure |
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Savolainen, Jukka Mason, W. Alex Bolen, Jonathan D. Chmelka, Mary B. Hurtig, Tuula Ebeling, Hanna Nordström, Tanja Taanila, Anja |
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The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure |
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The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure |
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The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure |
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The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure |
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The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure |
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path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure |
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