I. RESEARCH AND THEORETICAL STRATEGIES

Crucial Paths from Risk Indicator to Causal Mechanism

Michael Rutter

II. GENERAL AND INTEGRATIVE CAUSAL MODELS

A Social Learning Model of Child and Adolescent Antisocial Behavior

James Snyder

John Reid

Gerald Patterson

Life-Course-Persistent and Adolescence-Limited Antisocial Behavior: A 10-Year Research Review and a Research Agenda

Terrie E. Moffitt

A Developmental Propensity Model of the Origins of Conduct Problems during Childhood and Adolescence

Benjamin B. Lahey

Irwin D. Waldman

Social Mechanisms of Community Influences on Crime and Pathways in Criminality

Per-Olof H. Wikstrom

Robert J. Sampson

III. TARGETED CAUSAL MODELS

Development of Conduct Problems during the Preschool Period

Starting at the Beginning: Exploring the Etiology of Antisocial Behavior in the First Years of Life

Kate Keenan

Daniel S. Shaw

Why Socialization Fails: The Case of Chronic Physical Aggression

Richard E. Tremblay

Cognitive Factors

An Early-Onset Model of the Role of Executive Functions and Intelligence in Conduct Disorder/Delinquency

Joel T. Nigg

Cynthia L. Huang-Pollock

Do Social Information-Processing Patterns Mediate Aggressive Behavior?

Kenneth A. Dodge

Genetic, Environmental, and Biological Influences

Prefrontal Deficits and Antisocial Behavior: A Causal Model

Sharon S. Ishikawa

Adrian Raine

Testing Alternative Hypotheses Regarding the Role of Development on Genetic and Environmental Influences Underlying Antisocial Behavior

Soo Hyun Rhee

Irwin D. Waldman

Prenatal and Perinatal Influences on Conduct Disorder and Serious Delinquency

Patricia A. Brennan

Emily R. Grekin

Sarnoff A. Mednick

Animal Models of the Causes of Aggression

Social and Biological Mechanisms Underlying Impulsive Aggressiveness in Rhesus Monkeys

Stephen J. Suomi

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