title: Developmental trajectories of childhood disruptive behaviors and adolescent delinquency: a six-site, cross-national study.
abstract: This study used data from 6 sites and 3 countries to examine the developmental course of physical aggression in childhood and to analyze its linkage to violent and nonviolent offending outcomes in adolescence. The results indicate that among boys there is continuity in problem behavior from childhood to adolescence and that such continuity is especially acute when early problem behavior takes the form of physical aggression. Chronic physical aggression during the elementary school years specifically increases the risk for continued physical violence as well as other nonviolent forms of delinquency during adolescence. However, this conclusion is reserved primarily for boys, because the results indicate no clear linkage between childhood physical aggression and adolescent offending among female samples despite notable similarities across male and female samples in the developmental course of physical aggression in childhood.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque 87131, USA. lbroidy@unm.edu
authors.forename: Lisa M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Broidy
authors.forename: Daniel S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Nagin
authors.forename: Richard E
authors.initials: RE
authors.lastname: Tremblay
authors.forename: John E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Bates
authors.forename: Bobby
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Brame
authors.forename: Kenneth A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Dodge
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fergusson
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Horwood
authors.forename: Rolf
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Loeber
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Laird
authors.forename: Donald R
authors.initials: DR
authors.lastname: Lynam
authors.forename: Terrie E
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Moffitt
authors.forename: Gregory S
authors.initials: GS
authors.lastname: Pettit
authors.forename: Frank
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Vitaro
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D019958:Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000523:psychology* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological