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Aggression and Criminality in a Longitudinal Perspective

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Prospective Studies of Crime and Delinquency

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Since 1965 a longitudinal research program with the title “Individual development and environment” has been in progress at the Department of Psychology, the University of Stockholm. The purpose of the project is to study individual development from early age to adulthood, with particular emphasis on the development of social adjustment. Main subprojects within the program are directed to the study of the genesis of alcoholism, criminality and mental illness. In view of the important role that the individual’s educational-vocational career process and his/her social network play in the development, they have been afforded special attention. (For information about the program, its main aims, strategies and data collections, the reader is referred to Magnusson, in press; Magnusson and Duner, 1981; Magnusson, Dunér and Zetterblom, 1975).

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Magnusson, D., Stattin, H., Dunér, A. (1983). Aggression and Criminality in a Longitudinal Perspective. In: Van Dusen, K.T., Mednick, S.A. (eds) Prospective Studies of Crime and Delinquency. Longitudinal Research in the Behavioral, Social and Medical Sciences, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6672-7_16

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