“…At an individual level, these include male sex (Wood, Kiperman, Esch, Leroux, & Truscott, ); academic difficulties in childhood and adolescence (Daniel et al, ); lower cognitive skills (Pagani, Brière, & Janosz, ); disengagement from school (Henry, Knight, & Thornberry, ); child/adolescent BPs (Orpinas et al, ); substance use (McCaffrey, Pacula, Han, & Ellickson, ); and mental health problems (Daniel et al, ). Family, peer, and school risk factors include low family socioeconomic status, less effective parenting, poor family attachment among adolescents (Blondal & Adalbjarnadottir, ); being bullied, low attachment to prosocial peers, deviant peer affiliations (Doren, Murray, & Gau, ); and school socioeconomic disadvantage and climate (Jia, Konold, & Cornell, ). Additionally, an accumulation of factors is often found, suggesting that secondary school noncompletion is the culmination of multiple intersecting factors (Duperé et al, ).…”