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Temperament and Offending Behaviors in Male Adolescents

Published:2022-07-28 Issue: Volume: Page:0306624X2211135
ISSN:0306-624X
Container-title:International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology
language:en
Short-container-title:Int J Offender Ther Comp Criminol

Author:

Manetsch Madleina¹,Aebi Marcel²³,Barra Steffen⁴,Goth Kirstin¹,Boonmann Cyril¹^ORCID,Schmeck Klaus¹,Bessler Cornelia³,Plattner Belinda⁵

Affiliation:

1. Psychiatric University Hospitals Basel, University of Basel, Switzerland

2. University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

3. Canton of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

4. Saarland University, Homburg, Germany

5. University Clinics for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Salzburger Landeskliniken, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria

Abstract

The aim of the current paper was to examine temperament profiles and temperament dimensions as risk factors for persistent criminal behavior in juveniles who offended (JOs). A sample of 137 male adolescents from a Swiss detention center and 137 age and sex matched community controls were included in the present study. Temperament was measured with the Junior Temperament and Character Inventory (JTCI). Using Latent Profile Analysis (LPA), three temperament profiles were found, a “moderate,” an “adventurous-disinhibited” (higher levels of novelty seeking, lower levels of harm avoidance, reward dependence, and persistence), and a “worried-passive” profile (higher levels of harm avoidance, low persistence). None of the profiles and dimensions were associated with detention sample (i.e., JO) status. In JOs, the “novelty seeking” scale predicted recidivism after release from detention even when controlling for other covariates. Further research should address temperament profiles and temperament dimensions in larger samples of JOs to elaborate their relation to previous and future offending behavior.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Applied Psychology,Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Pathology and Forensic Medicine

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0306624X221113532

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