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January 1, 2025
Jay Belsky’s career has always focused on important social and behavioral challenges, and Jay specialized in showing how childhood experience shapes people’s behavior in the face of such challenges. Here we describe a project that could have been done by J ...
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February 6, 2018
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January 1, 2018
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 ...
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July 5, 2017
A dual taxonomy is presented to reconcile 2 incongruous facts about antisocial behavior: (a) It shows impressive continuity over age, but (b) its prevalence changes dramatically over age, increasing almost 10-fold temporarily during adolescence. This artic ...
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July 5, 2017
A dual taxonomy is presented to reconcile 2 incongruous facts about antisocial behavior: (a) It shows impressive continuity over age, but (b) its prevalence changes dramatically over age, increasing almost 10-fold temporarily during adolescence. This artic ...
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July 5, 2017
This article reviews behavioral-genetic research to show how it can help address questions o f causation in developmental psychopathology. The article focuses on studies of antisocial behavior, because these have been leading the way in investigating envir ...
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July 5, 2017
We studied a large sample of male children from birth to adulthood to determine why some children who are maltreated grow up to develop antisocial behavior, whereas others do not. A functional polymorphism in the gene encoding the neurotransmitter-metaboli ...
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January 1, 2017
The relationship between age and crime has been one of the most well-documented (Quetelet, 1831; Hirschi and Gottfredson, 1983) and contentious (Steffensmeier et al., 1989; Britt, 1992) of all criminological facts. Researchers studying the relationship bet ...
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January 1, 2017
This chapter reviews ten years of research into a developmental taxonomy of antisocial behavior that proposed two primary hypothetical prototypes: life-course persistent versus adolescence-limited offenders. According to the taxonomic theory, life-course p ...
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January 1, 2014
We examined processes linking biological and behavioral changes in different contexts during adolescence by studying an unselected cohort of New Zealand girls from childhood through adolescence when they entered either mixed-sex or all-girl secondary schoo ...
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January 1, 2014
This chapter considers the genetic contribution in more detail. It provides a basic introduction to concepts and an overview of research methods in the fields of most relevance to forensic psychiatry. The chapter presents a summary of quantitative genetic ...
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January 1, 2013
A dual taxonomy is presented to reconcile 2 incongruous facts about antisocial behavior: (a) It shows impressive continuity over age, but (b) its prevalence changes dramatically over age, increasing almost I Q-fold temporarily during adolescence. This arti ...
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September 20, 2012
This chapter advances the need to improve the physical and financial health of populations and reduce crime. It focuses on the role of poor self-control in predicting delinquency, health outcomes, substance use dependence, and financial wealth, providing s ...
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January 1, 2006
This chapter reviews 10 years of research into a developmental taxonomy of antisocial behavior that proposed two primary hypothetical prototypes: life-course-persistent versus adolescence-limited offenders. According to the taxonomic theory, life-course-pe ...
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