A prospective study of delinquency in 110 adolescent boys with attention deficit disorder and 88 normal adolescent boys
- 1 June 1982
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychiatry
- Vol. 139 (6) , 795-798
- https://doi.org/10.1176/ajp.139.6.795
Abstract
Official arrests from childhood through adolescence were studied in 2 groups of boys; 1 group (110) was diagnosed in childhood as suffering from attention deficit disorder (ADD) and the 2nd group (88) consisted of normal control adolescents. Rates of single and multiple serious offenses and of institutionalization for delinquency were significantly higher in the ADD subjects. These findings suggest a strong relationship between childhood ADD and later arrests for delinquent behavior.This publication has 5 references indexed in Scilit:
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