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Aging Out of Crime and Personality Development: A Review of the Research Examining the Role of Impulsiveness on Offending in Middle and Late Adulthood.
| Content Provider | Europe PMC |
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| Author | Ray, James V Jones, Shayne |
| Copyright Year | 2023 |
| Abstract | Virtually everything we know about the relationship between impulsivity and offending is confined to adolescence and early adulthood. There is a paucity of research that examines impulsivity and offending in middle and late adulthood. What little is known is covered in this review. There are normative declines in offending, but it remains quite common in middle and late adulthood. This challenges the notion that the majority of offenders age out of crime by middle age. There are also normative declines in impulsivity, consistent with the maturity principle of personality development. While impulsivity is associated with offending (and other externalizing behaviors) in middle and late adulthood, preciously little evidence exists that speaks to whether the declines in impulsivity are causally related to decreases in offending. Various suggestions are offered for future research that can better address this notable void in the literature. |
| Page Count | 10 |
| Journal | Psychology Research and Behavior Management |
| Volume Number | 16 |
| PubMed Central reference number | PMC10163877 |
| PubMed reference number | 37159648 |
| e-ISSN | 11791578 |
| DOI | 10.2147/PRBM.S391406 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Dove |
| Publisher Date | 2023-05-02 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Rights License | This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php). © 2023 Ray and Jones. |
| Subject Keyword | impulsivity adulthood crime offending development personality |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
| Subject | Psychiatry and Mental Health Psychology |
