Contact Admin. Use the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more. Lately there has been an increasing interest in whether personality traits are associated with criminal behaviour in male and female subjects. Criminality and alcohol abuse are often associated.
Delinquent adolescents are impulsive and danger seeking. Childhood aggression may be a precursor of adult criminality. Karolinska Scales of Personality KSP were given at adult age and the participants had been observed and rated by their teachers in respect of behaviour in childhood at age 8 years and 13 years, respectively. The female subgroup displaying criminal activity was small.
The study suggests that early problem behaviours are precursors of subsequent criminal activity in at least two cultures. The results emphasize the importance of longitudinal research programmes. Volume 10 , Issue 3. The full text of this article hosted at iucr.
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