This report, a product of the Institute's Australian Temperament Project in partnership with the Royal Automobile Club of Victoria and the Transport Accident Commission of Victoria, provides new information on young adults' own reported driving behaviour and identifies earlier characteristics or circumstances in young drivers' lives that may have influenced their current driving behaviour.

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...