The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure.
The path from childhood behavioural disorders to felony offending: Investigating the role of adolescent drinking, peer marginalisation and school failure.
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从儿童行为障碍到重罪的路径：调查青少年饮酒、同伴边缘化和学业失败的作用。
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10.1002/cbm.1931
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2015
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Taanila,Anja
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Savolainen,Jukka;Mason,WAlex;Bolen,JonathanD;Chmelka,MaryB;Hurtig,Tuula;Ebeling,Hanna;Nordström,Tanja;Taanila,Anja
背景虽然从儿童行为障碍到犯罪的途径已经被很好地建立，但病因学过程仍然知之甚少。我们考察了两个研究问题：(1)注意缺陷多动障碍(ADHD)对犯罪风险的影响是否独立于DBD？(2)童年行为障碍对犯罪的影响是直接的还是通过青少年过程与学校经历、滥用药物和同伴有关？方法采用带潜在变量的结构方程模型对1986年芬兰北部出生队列中4644名男性的纵向数据进行建模。结果ADHD和DBD分别预测重罪定罪风险。这些影响中的大部分是由青少年饮酒和学习成绩低下所介导的。结论与行为连续性路径相比，DBD对犯罪的影响更符合生活过程中介假说，即每一类障碍的影响都是通过酗酒和教育失败来中介的。预防这些青少年风险后果可能是关闭行为障碍儿童犯罪行为途径的有效方法。然而，由于有证据表明DBD是一种直接途径，针对这种疾病的有效治疗也有望减少刑事犯罪。版权所有©2014 John Wiley&Sons，Ltd.
BackgroundAlthough 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).HypothesisWe 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?MethodStructural equation modelling, with latent variables, was applied to longitudinally collected data on 4644 men from the 1986 Northern Finland Birth Cohort Study.ResultsBoth 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.ConclusionFindings were more consistent with thelife 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.