title: The roles of the American and European governments in the development and persistence of antisocial behavior.
abstract: Both the American and European governments play a crucial part in the development and continuation of antisocial behavior. They demonstrate a lack of activities or initiatives that should intervene in or prevent negative conditions that correlate with antisocial behavior such as media violence; poverty; poor neighborhoods; homelessness; unfavourable parental impact and attitude, educational, psychiatric, neurobiological, and physical problems. More research is needed into a) the determinants of antisocial behavior, b) the construction of new and improvement of existing prevention and intervention programs, c) the exact reasons for governments' lack of initiatives and adequate measurements in order to tackle problems that correlate with antisocial behavior, and d) the development of methods that are suitable to stimulate the government's awareness of the necessity for adequate prevention and intervention programs.
authors.affiliation: W Kahn Institute of Theoretical Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Beatrixstraat, (Utrecht), The Netherlands.
authors.forename: W H J
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Martens
mesh_terms: D000987:Antisocial Personality Disorder / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D004522:Educational Status; D005060:Europe / Q000453:epidemiology; D006076:Government; D006291:Health Policy; D018453:Homeless Youth / Q000193:education / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007604:Juvenile Delinquency / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D008402:Mass Media / Q000639:trends; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D011203:Poverty / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000523:psychology; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D014754:Violence / Q000523:psychology / Q000639:trends*