Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Advancing knowledge about the early prevention of adult antisocial behaviour
- 2 Formulating strategies for the primary prevention of adult antisocial behaviour: “High risk” or ‘population’ strategies?
- 3 Risk factors for adult antisocial personality
- 4 Preventing the intergenerational continuity of antisocial behaviour: Implications of partner violence
- 5 Protective factors and resilience
- 6 Prevention during pregnancy, infancy and the preschool years
- 7 Prevention through family and parenting programmes
- 8 Prevention in the school years
- 9 Prevention of antisocial behaviour in females
- 10 Economic costs and benefits of primary prevention of delinquency and later offending: A review of the research
- 11 Conclusions and the way forward
- Index
- References
5 - Protective factors and resilience
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Advancing knowledge about the early prevention of adult antisocial behaviour
- 2 Formulating strategies for the primary prevention of adult antisocial behaviour: “High risk” or ‘population’ strategies?
- 3 Risk factors for adult antisocial personality
- 4 Preventing the intergenerational continuity of antisocial behaviour: Implications of partner violence
- 5 Protective factors and resilience
- 6 Prevention during pregnancy, infancy and the preschool years
- 7 Prevention through family and parenting programmes
- 8 Prevention in the school years
- 9 Prevention of antisocial behaviour in females
- 10 Economic costs and benefits of primary prevention of delinquency and later offending: A review of the research
- 11 Conclusions and the way forward
- Index
- References
Summary
Introduction
The majority of studies on antisocial behaviour have focused on causes and risk factors. Thanks particularly to prospective longitudinal studies, we now have a pretty good understanding of the characteristics of youngsters who are at risk of becoming serious offenders (e.g., Loeber and Farrington, 1998). Developmental models such as Moffitt's (1993a) taxonomy of adolescence-limited and life course-persistent antisociality, the distinction between early and late starters (Patterson et al., 1991), or the three pathways model of overt, covert, and authority conflict from Loeber and Hay (1994) offer explanations for the onset, persistence, and aggravation of various forms of antisocial behaviour. Although researchers do not agree about the number and structure of different pathways to serious delinquency (Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber, 1998; Nagin and Tremblay, 1999), children who show both overt and covert antisocial behaviour and early official delinquency seem to be particularly at risk for chronic offending (Farrington and Loeber, 2001; Patterson et al., 1998).
However, most research on persistent antisociality focuses on risks, deficits, and negative behavioural trends. Much less attention is paid to processes of abstaining or desistance (Farrington, 1994; Loeber and Stouthamer-Loeber, 1998; Nagin and Tremblay, 1999). Such processes are no rarity: for example, in the Kauai Study (Werner and Smith, 1992; see below), one out of three high-risk children grew into a competent, confident, and caring young adult. Robins (1978) and Moffitt et al. (1996) have shown that about one half of children with conduct disorders or extreme antisociality did not go on to serious criminal outcomes.
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- Early Prevention of Adult Antisocial Behaviour , pp. 130 - 204Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003
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