Pathways to Violent and Non-Violent Criminality in an Adolescent Psychiatric Population

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 33 - Trang 29-42 - 2002
Ellen Kjelsberg1
1Center for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway

Tóm tắt

In a Norwegian follow-up study of former adolescent psychiatric in-patients 222 patients who had committed violent crimes were compared to 287 patients who had committed non-violent crimes only. There were numerous significant differences between the criminal careers of violent and non-violent criminals. Individuals with a history of violent criminality only were uncommon and uncharacteristic of violent criminals in general. Regression analyses identified several strong and independent correlates of violent criminality. The study supported a division of antisocial behavior into violent and non-violent sub-groups, thus paralleling a concept of overt and covert pathways to delinquent behavior. The overt pathway seemed to be imbedded in the covert pathway.

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