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Many longitudinal studies have found that antisocial behavior in childhood, broadly defined, is related to adolescent and adult antisocial behavior. Many of these studies have included only males, possibly because the rate of antisocial behavior is much higher among males, because males seem to have more continuity in aggressiveness from one time to the next, or because our society, including its scientists, associates antisocial behavior with males as if it is a male problem. We argue, as does Harris (1977), that the failure to include the antisocial behavior of both males and females is a major shortcoming of research thus far into delinquency and criminality. Indeed the differences in rates offer a major opportunity to investigate the conditions leading to delinquency, whether these be biological, social, psychological, or some combination.
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Ensminger, M.E., Kellam, S.G., Rubin, B.R. (1983). School and Family Origins of Delinquency:Comparisons by Sex. 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_6
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