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Conduct Disorders

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Handbook of Child Psychopathology

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Antisocial behavior in children and adolescents has long been a major societal concern. This societal concern seems justified given the high cost at which antisocial behavior operates to society including the cost of incarceration of juvenile offenders, the cost associated with vandalism of public property, and the cost to the victims of youth crime and their families (Zigler,Taussig, & Black,1992,). Reflecting societal concerns, researchers from a host of scientific disciplines have spent decades investigating the causes, the course, and the methods of preventing and treating severe antisocial behavior, or what is referred to in psychiatric terminology as conduct disorders. It is arguably one of the most intensively studied of all forms of childhood psychopathology. However, there is still great debate over “how the accumulated facts should be interpreted, such as why antisocial trajectories develop, why they broaden and deepen with development in some children yet taper off in others, and why they are so difficult to deflect once stabilized” (Richters & Cicchetti,1993, p. 2). Although the field is far from reaching a consensus on these questions, there are several promising theories based on the available research and the goal of this chapter is to provide a brief overview of these promising approaches.

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