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Abstract: 

Repeat offenders have received a good deal of attention from the media and in the empirical literature. The descriptors “serious” and “chronic” often appear together, implying that the crimes of greatest concern to society are mainly the work of the same small subset of the population (e.g., Cernkovich et al., 2002; Scott & Grisso, 1997). However, while recent findings reveal that only 10% of adult males display a stable high level of antisocial behavior from childhood through adulthood, it is estimated that nearly all adolescents engage in some delinquent behavior (Moffitt, 1993; Moffitt et al., 2002). Aside from the immediate societal repercussions of adolescent delinquency, AL offenders continue to experience negative consequences of their teenage antisocial behavior well into adulthood.

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Affiliations:  1: Center for the Advancement of Children’s Mental Health, Columbia University.