NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS PREDICTING PERSISTENT MALE DELINQUENCY*

Criminology - Tập 32 Số 2 - Trang 277-300 - 1994
Terrie E. Moffitt1, Donald R. Lynam1, Phil A. Silva2
1University of Wisconsin, Madison
2University of Otago Medical School, New Zealand

Tóm tắt

This article reports the first longitudinal evidence that prospective measures of neuropsychological status predict antisocial outcomes. We studied data for a birth cohort of several hundred New Zealand males from age 13 to age 18. Age‐13 neuropsychological scores predicted later delinquency measured via multiple sources: police, courts, and self‐report. Poor neuropsychological scores were associated with early onset of delinquency. The results fit our predictions about two trajectories of delinquent involvement: (1) Poor neuropsychological status predicted specifically male offending that began before age 13 and persisted at high levels thereafter. (2) By contrast, in this sample neuropsychological status was unrelated to delinquency that began in adolescence.

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