Offending Trajectories in Violent Offenders: Criminal History and Early Life Risk Factors.

ABSTRACT: The understanding of offending, and thus its possible prevention, is expanded through longitudinal studies on criminal trajectories depicting early life risk factors. This longitudinal study aimed to explore criminal trajectories, criminal histories, and early life risk factors in a cohort of violent offenders. A Swedish nationally representative cohort of male violent offenders (n = 266), clinically assessed while imprisoned aged 18 to 25, was followed through national registers from age 15 to 25-34. Substantial differences in criminal histories between violent offenders and a matched comparison group (n = 10,000) were demonstrated. Five trajectory groups were identified: four persisting and one desisting. Although differences were observed between persisting trajectory grou

SUBMITTER: Tarnhall A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9806473 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature