The Path from Childhood Behavioural Disorders to Felony Offending: Investigating the Role of Adolescent Drinking Peer Marginalization and School Failure

摘要

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).