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Describe the different ways in which individual traits and environmental factors interact (or influence) one another to produce persistent antisocial behavior, according to Moffitt's theory.

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Criminological Thought: Pioneers Past and Present
Author: Robert J. Mutchnick, Indiana University of Pennsylvania
Randy Martin
W. Timothy Austin
ISBN-10:0131190466
ISBN-13: 9780131190467
Publisher: Prentice Hall Copyright: 2009

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Individual traits and environmental factors interact (or influence) one another to produce persistent antisocial behavior

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Describe the different ways in which individual traits and environmental factors interact (or influence) one another to produce persistent antisocial behavior, according to Moffitt's theory.

First and foremost, Moffitt's theoretical framework is predicated upon two separate groups of individuals who engage in antisocial behavior, life-course offenders and adolescence limited offenders. In reference to individual traits that produce life-course persistent offenders, Moffitt alleges that those who become life-course offenders display antisocial traits from an early age and suffer from so-called neuropsychological impairment ...

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