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Murray, Joseph; Irving, Barrie; Farrington, David P.; Colman, Ian; Bloxsom, Claire A. J. – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 2010
Background: Longitudinal research has produced a wealth of knowledge about individual, family, and social predictors of crime. However, nearly all studies have started after children are age 5, and little is known about earlier risk factors. Methods: The 1970 British Cohort Study is a prospective population survey of more than 16,000 children born…
Descriptors: Behavior Problems, Crime, Criminals, Pregnancy
Jopp, David A.; Keys, Christopher B. – American Journal on Mental Retardation, 2001
This article discusses diagnostic overshadowing, a robust bias that negatively affects the accuracy of clinicians' judgments about concomitant mental illness in persons with mental retardation and mental illness. Reviewing 12 studies, it examined moderators of diagnostic overshadowing and found clinician's cognitive complexity negatively affects…
Descriptors: Adults, Children, Clinical Diagnosis, Disability Identification