News Finding: Beckley, who is in the department of psychology and neuroscience at Duke, said the adult-onset group had a history of anti-social behavior back to childhood, but reported committing relatively fewer crimes.
Paper Finding: Our results showed that most of the official adult-onset men began their antisocial activities during early childhood.
News Context: Using this unusually rich source of data, the study was able to look at childhood history compared with adult behavior. Beckley, who is in the department of psychology and neuroscience at Duke, said the adult-onset group had a history of anti-social behavior back to childhood, but reported committing relatively fewer crimes. This group reported committing more crimes than folks who had never been convicted, but fewer crimes than people who had been in trouble as juveniles.
Paper Context: Our results, along with past research (see, for example, , indicate that as a whole, apparent adult-onset offenders are responsible for a small minority of total crime. Our results showed that most of the official adult-onset men began their antisocial activities during early childhood. In fact, on average, official adult-onset men were similar to juvenile-onset men on multiple measures of child and adolescent antisocial behavior.