The Link between Early Adolescent Alcohol Abuse and Adult Antisocial Behaviour: A Hypothesis Revisited

the community Thus it was reasonable to assume that emotional impulsiveness -the tendency to act precipitately and without consideration of adverse consequences under pressure of negative emotions such as anger -might be a core feature of severe personality disorder, one that was associated with a high risk of violent offending. Both childhood CD [5] and early alcohol abuse However, a variable proportion of those children diagnosed with CD have been found to progress to antisocial personality disorder as adultsestimates vary across different samples between 30% [9,10] and 60% Howard's hypothesis was novel in explicitly proposing a causal link between CD and early alcohol abuse in the genesis