10/15/2025
Conduct disorders can have long-term significant impacts on the children, their families, and society. Poor lifespan outcomes include persistent criminality (approximately 60% of incarcerated males have a history of conduct disorders). Poor vocational and social functioning, mental illness, increased rates of hospitalization, family and parenting dysfunction, and substance abuse issues.
*Facts to consider*
- Leading researchers have found that there are "seven years of warning" before a juvenile becomes a serious, violent offender.
- The most serious juvenile offenders in the 15 years and up range most likely entered the justice system under the age of 12.
- Early onset of offending is one of the strongest predictors of subsequent re-offence.
-Compared to youth who start offending in adolescence, children aged 12 and younger at risk for delinquency "are two to three times more likely to become serious and violent offenders.
-Research shows that "these children are potentially identifiable either before they begin committing crimes or at the very early stages of criminality, times when interventions are most likely to succeed.
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