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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study
- 3 Sex differences in the amount of antisocial behaviour: dimensional measures
- 4 Sex differences in the prevalence of antisocial behaviour: categorical diagnostic measures
- 5 Sex differences in physical violence and sex similarities in partner abuse
- 6 Sex and the developmental stability of antisocial behaviour
- 7 Sex and the age of onset of delinquency and conduct disorder
- 8 Sex effects in risk predictors for antisocial behaviour: are males more vulnerable than females to risk factors for antisocial behaviour?
- 9 Sex effects in risk predictors for antisocial behaviour: are males exposed to more risk factors for antisocial behaviour?
- 10 Can sex differences in personality traits help to explain sex differences in antisocial behaviour?
- 11 Sex and comorbidity: are there sex differences in the co-occurrence of conduct disorder and other disorders?
- 12 Do girls who develop antisocial behaviour surmount a higher threshold of risk than their male counterparts?
- 13 Sex differences in the effects of antisocial behaviour on young adult outcomes
- 14 Sex, antisocial behaviour, and mating: mate selection and early childbearing
- 15 Evaluating the recommendation to relax the criteria for diagnosing conduct disorder in girls
- 16 Life-course persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial behaviour among males and females
- 17 Priorities for a research agenda
- References
- Index
17 - Priorities for a research agenda
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The Dunedin Multidisciplinary Health and Development Study
- 3 Sex differences in the amount of antisocial behaviour: dimensional measures
- 4 Sex differences in the prevalence of antisocial behaviour: categorical diagnostic measures
- 5 Sex differences in physical violence and sex similarities in partner abuse
- 6 Sex and the developmental stability of antisocial behaviour
- 7 Sex and the age of onset of delinquency and conduct disorder
- 8 Sex effects in risk predictors for antisocial behaviour: are males more vulnerable than females to risk factors for antisocial behaviour?
- 9 Sex effects in risk predictors for antisocial behaviour: are males exposed to more risk factors for antisocial behaviour?
- 10 Can sex differences in personality traits help to explain sex differences in antisocial behaviour?
- 11 Sex and comorbidity: are there sex differences in the co-occurrence of conduct disorder and other disorders?
- 12 Do girls who develop antisocial behaviour surmount a higher threshold of risk than their male counterparts?
- 13 Sex differences in the effects of antisocial behaviour on young adult outcomes
- 14 Sex, antisocial behaviour, and mating: mate selection and early childbearing
- 15 Evaluating the recommendation to relax the criteria for diagnosing conduct disorder in girls
- 16 Life-course persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial behaviour among males and females
- 17 Priorities for a research agenda
- References
- Index
Summary
This final chapter integrates the findings in this book. Tables 17.1 to 17.4 summarize the ‘take-home’ messages from the various studies conducted for this book, and in the following paragraphs we extract unifying themes from these findings to develop recommendations for future research. Based on the findings in this report, two high-priority areas for future research suggest themselves. These priorities are: (a) research into a set of critical individuallevel neuro-developmental factors, and (b) research into a set of influential social contexts. These two priority areas map at least partly on to the typology of life-course persistent and adolescence-limited antisocial behaviour that was presented in chapter 16. On the one hand, a consequential few male offenders (and the rare female) exhibit the life-course persistent pattern. When the objective is to understand the origins of this persistent serious form of antisocial behaviour, this chapter will direct scientific attention toward the neuro-developmental factors that account for the male excess of antisocial behaviour. On the other hand, the majority of male offenders and virtually all female offenders appear to share the adolescence-limited pattern. When the objective is to understand the origins of this situational form of antisocial participation, this chapter will direct scientific attention toward social-context factors that can make females act antisocially along with males. In both cases, the chapter may be read as a template for harnessing sex differences to articulate hypotheses about the origins of problem behaviour.
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- Sex Differences in Antisocial BehaviourConduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, pp. 227 - 245Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2001