Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- 1 Advancing knowledge about the early prevention of adult antisocial behaviour -- Definition and measurement -- Definition of antisocial behaviour -- Measurement of antisocial behaviour -- Inter-relationships between behaviours -- Epidemiology and development -- Epidemiology -- Development -- Intragenerational continuity -- Intergenerational continuity -- Risk and protective factors -- Biological and individual risk factors -- Family interaction and socio-economic risk factors -- Peer, school and community risk factors -- Protective factors -- Other issues -- Early prevention -- Pregnancy and infancy programmes -- Preschool programmes -- Parenting programmes -- Skills training -- Peer programmes -- School programmes -- Multiple component programmes -- Community programmes -- Monetary costs and benefits -- Ethical, legal and practical issues -- Conclusions -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 2 Formulating strategies for the primary prevention of adult antisocial behaviour: 'high risk' or 'population' strategies? -- Epidemiology, prevention, and crime -- Criminal careers and career criminals -- Antisocial personality disorder and the development of adult antisocial syndromes -- Community surveys of Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Prison surveys of Antisocial Personality Disorder -- Conduct disorder -- 'High risk' or 'population' strategies? -- 'High risk' prevention strategies -- Screening for Conduct Disorder -- 'Population' prevention strategy -- Applying research into risk and protective factors -- The Kauai Longitudinal Study -- The price of ignoring the population strategy: lessons from the USA -- Public policy and deurbanisation -- Integrated community treatment - population strategies.

Income distribution or containment of the urban underclass? -- Conclusion -- REFERENCES -- 3 Risk factors for adult antisocial personality -- Definition -- Prevalence -- The unfolding of symptoms over time -- Developmental models of antisocial personality -- Developmental conceptualisations -- Which early manifestations? -- The prediction of conduct disorder -- Risk and protective factors -- Risk factors -- Protective factors -- The significance of comorbid conditions -- Conclusions about comorbidities -- Other impairments -- Methodological shortcomings of previous research -- Postscript -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- NOTE -- REFERENCES -- 4 Preventing the inter-generational continuity of antisocial behaviour: implications of partner violence -- Infancy and early childhood: Young children's conduct problems are promoted by witnessing violence between the adults in thei -- Infancy and early childhood: Adult partner who are violent toward each other are also at increased risk of abusing their… -- Middle childhood: Childhood conduct problems are strong developmental risk factor for adult partner violence -- Adolescence: Partner violence is not confined to adults -- it is a feature of adolescents' earliest intimate experiences -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 5 Protective factors and resilience -- Introduction -- Basic concepts, research examples, and problems -- Protective factors -- Risk factors -- Behavioural outcome -- Selected protective factors and processes -- Biological and psychophysiological factors -- Temperament characteristics/personality -- Cognitive competencies -- Attachment to reference persons -- Childrearing and educational climate -- School achievement, school bonding, and employment -- Social networks and peer groups -- Self-related cognitions, social cognitions and beliefs -- Neighbourhood and community factors.

Conclusions and perspectives -- REFERENCES -- 6 Prevention during pregnancy, infancy, and the preschool years -- Prevention of delinquency -- The High/Scope Perry Preschool Project -- Background -- Method -- Results -- The High/Scope Preschool Curriculum Study -- Background -- Method -- Results -- The Abecedarian Project -- Background -- Method -- Results -- The Syracuse University Family Development Research Programme -- Background -- Method -- Results -- The Elmira Prenatal/Early Childhood Project -- Background -- Method -- Results -- Preventing socially disruptive behaviours -- The Houston Parent-Child Development Centre Project -- Background -- Method -- Results -- Preventing cognitive deficits -- Project CARE -- Background -- Method -- Results -- The Vermont Intervention Project (Achenbach,1989) -- Background -- Method -- Results -- Preventing inadequate parenting -- The Infant Health and Development Programme -- Background -- Method -- Results -- Summary of results and discussion -- REFERENCES -- 7 Prevention through family and parenting programmes -- Risk and protective factors -- Prevention experiments -- Combined interventions -- The United Kingdom -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- 8 Prevention in the school years -- Prevention in the school years -- Classroom organisation, management, and instructional strategies -- School behaviour management strategies -- Special education and alternative schools -- Organisational change in schools -- School-based prevention curricula -- Conflict resolution and violence prevention curricula -- Peer mediation and counselling -- Bullying prevention -- Gang prevention programmes -- After-school recreation programmes -- Vocational training and employment -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- REFERENCES -- 9 Prevention of antisocial behaviour in females -- Exclusion of females from studies.

Antisocial behaviour among women -- Adult outcomes of antisocial behaviour among girls -- Can there be a unified theory of antisocial behaviour? -- A gendered approach -- Developmental-ecological model -- What about prevention? -- What are the rates and patterns of involvement among females? -- What are the predictors of female antisocial behaviour? -- Victimisation -- Are there differential prevention effects? And what works? -- REFERENCES -- 10 Economic costs and benefits of primary prevention of delinquency and later offending: a review of the research -- Introduction -- Economic costs of crime and victimisation -- Costs of crime in England and Wales -- Costs of crime in the United States -- Key issues in the economic analysis of prevention programmes -- Techniques of economic analysis -- Economic analysis framework -- Review of studies -- Prenatal/Early Infancy Project -- Design and method -- Results -- Economic analysis -- Hawaii Healthy Start -- Design and method -- Results -- Economic analysis -- Syracuse University Family Development Research Project -- Design and method -- Results -- Economic analysis -- Yale Child Welfare Research Programme -- Design and method -- Results -- Economic analysis -- Perry Preschool Programme -- Design and method -- Results -- Economic analysis -- Participate and Learn Skills -- Design and method -- Results -- Economic analysis -- Quantum Opportunities Programme -- Design and method -- Results -- Economic analysis -- Los Angeles County Delinquency Prevention Programme -- Design and method -- Results -- Economic analysis -- Job Corps -- Design and method -- Results -- Economic analysis -- Summary of economic analysis findings -- Conclusions and research priorities -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- 11 Conclusions and the way forward -- Current knowledge about antisocial behaviour -- Risk and protective factors.

Early prevention -- Advancing knowledge about the effectiveness of prevention -- Goals of prevention programmes -- Retrospective studies -- Prospective longitudinal studies -- Use of existing longitudinal studies -- High-risk longitudinal studies -- The accelerated longitudinal-experimental design -- Putting research into practice -- Conclusions -- REFERENCES -- Index.

Examines the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of early prevention programmes on levels of adult antisocial behaviour.

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