Assessment of antisocial behaviour in children and adolescents: new data with the ASB scale

Personality and moral reasoning in young offenders

“…Other studies (Allsop and Feldman, 1976;Jamison, 1980;Silva et al, 1987) found full support for H. J. Eysenck's theory by reporting positive associations between P, E and N and self-reported offending, which was found in the female control group. The discrepancies in the relation of N to self-reported offending can be explained by reference to Eysenck's (1964) hypothesis that N is more important in predicting offending in older individuals when the anti-social tendencies have been developed into a habit.…”

“…Previous research, showed a varying degree of agreement with the predictions of H. J. Eysenck's personality theory of crime in relation to self-reported offending. The review by Fumham and Thompson (1991) found several studies which supported the notion that high SRD scorers scored higher on P, E and N (Allsop and Feldman, 1976;Jamison, 1980, Silva et al 1987). …”

“…Some of these (e.g. Allsop and Feldman, 1976;Jamison, 1980, Silva et al 1987 show support for the theory, in that either high SRD scorers scored higher on P, E, and N than low scorers or the three scales correlated significantly and positively with SRD scores.…”