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- Title: Distinguishing Between Early and Late Onset Delinquents: Race, Income, Verbal Intelligence and Impulsivity.
- Author : North American Journal of Psychology
- Release Date : January 01, 2009
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 214 KB
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In 1993, Terrie Moffitt proposed a dual taxonomy of adolescent delinquent behavior. She proposed that life course persistent antisocial behavior was characterized by neurological deficits in executive functions, which then result in behavioral impulsivity, and deficits in verbal intelligence. She proposed that these deficits would interact with negative environments (such as low socioeconomic status or ineffective parenting) to produce an early (preadolescent) onset of antisocial or delinquent behavior that would persist through adolescence and well into adulthood. In contrast, she described adolescence-limited delinquent behavior as being engaged in by adolescents in response to peer models, and that this type of antisocial behavior would be characterized by exposure to delinquent peers and cultural and historical context, rather than by neurological deficits involving impulsivity and low verbal intelligence. There have been several attempts to test Moffitt's predictions about the relationship between impulsivity and early onset antisocial behavior. White, Moffitt, Caspi, Bartusch, Needles, and Stouthamer-Loeber (1994) categorize the two approaches to measuring impulsivity as cognitive (using neuropsychological tests) and behavioral (using various observer or self reports of impulsive behavior). They found that behavioral impulsivity is more strongly related to delinquent behavior for males at ages 10 to 13 than is cognitive impulsivity. They did not specifically test Moffitt's hypothesis by examining the impulsivity of late onset delinquents.