Patterns of antisocial behaviour from early to late adolescence

As not all antisocial behaviour is recorded by police, it is valuable to measure adolescents' own reports of their involvement in such behaviour.

Self-reported measures allow questions to be answered about the types, rates and across-time patterns of adolescent antisocial behaviour and the degree to which such behaviour results in criminal justice contact. Diana Smart, Suzanne Vassallo, Ann Sanson and Inez Dussuyer analyse data from a large longitudinal study of Victorian children.