Child behaviour and adult personality: comparisons between criminality groups in Finland and Sweden

Abstract

Background; Lately there has been an increasing interest in whether personality

Childhood behaviour as related to subsequent drinking offences and violent offending: a prospective study of 11‐ to 14‐year‐old youths into their fourth decade

“…Fergusson et al (1997) found that associations between attention difficulties, later criminality and alcohol problems disappeared after controlling for CD. Biederman et al (1996), however, found that among children with ADHD, comorbid CD simply increased the risk for later alcohol dependence, which is also in line with recent results by most others in the field (Molina and Pelham, 2003;Andersson and Magnusson, 1987;Biederman et al, 1998;Caspi et al, 1997;Huizinga and Jakob-Chien, 1998;Pulkkinen et al, 2000;Raskin White et al, 2001;Satterfield, 1987;Ta rter et al, 1985;and Zagar et al, 1989). We did not, however, have a direct measure of conduct disorder.…”

Life success of males on nonoffender, adolescence‐limited, persistent, and adult‐onset antisocial pathways: follow‐up from age 8 to 42

“…For the shortened version, items were selected from the inventory used at age 33 to correspond to the items in the NEO-FFI [Costa and McCrae, 1989;Rantanen et al, 2007]. Vulnerability factors were studied at age 42 using the Karolinska Scales of Personality [KSP: af Klinteberg et al, 1990;Pulkkinen et al, 2000]. The KSP aims at quantifying theoretically important constructs for exploring and understanding the complicated relationships between individual differences in behavior, affectivity, and functioning.…”

Pathways to Women's Crime: Differences Among Women Convicted of Drug, Violence and Fraud Offenses

“…Archer, 2000;Holtzworth-Munroe, 2005;Kimberly & Allen, 2008;Melton & Belknap, 2003). Some studies found correlations between aggression and violent crimes (Pulkkinen, Virtanen, Klinteberg, & Magnusson, 2000), between impulsiveness and antisocial behavior (Komarovskaya, Loper, & Warren, 2007), and between low self control, drugs and alcohol use (Lopez-Torrecillas, Garcia, Garcia, Izquierdo, & Sanchez-Barrera, 2000). Most of these studies, however, did not relate to the connection between the factors that motivated these women to violate the law and offense types.…”