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From a social-interactional standpoint, Patterson et al. (1989) proposed an explanation for the growth of antisocial behaviour.
Children with aggressive behaviours and low social skills are prone to experience peer rejection upon starting school.
Attachment theory is a regularly utilised framework for describing the developmental pathways or trajectories of many outcomes.
Around two-thirds of children are said to receive sensitive and consistent parenting, build secure emotional attachments, and learn to evaluate their social surroundings positively.
Children from the remaining 14% of households who are abusive, negligent, or disorganised are highly prone to develop insecure/anxious emotional bonds.
According to Moffitt's developmental theory, there are two types of offenders: limited adolescents and persistent adults.
Sampson and Laub's theory of the life course emphasises on the evolution of informal social control, such as social ties to family, friends, school, and the workplace.
Shepherd et al. (2016) discovered that those who did not reoffend were more likely to be involved in prosocial activities, to have positive attitudes towards intervention and authority, and to demonstrate a strong commitment to education at the time of assessment.
Britt (2019) argues that a criminal career is somewhat a-theoretical and is instead a data-driven approach that focuses on various statistical associations that helped to identify risk and protective factors.
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