TY - JOUR AU - Stevens, Madeleine PY - 2018 DA - 2018/08/10 TI - Preventing at-risk children from developing antisocial and criminal behaviour: a longitudinal study examining the role of parenting, community and societal factors in middle childhood JO - BMC Psychology SP - 40 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Many childhood risk factors are known to be associated with children’s future antisocial and criminal behaviour, including children’s conduct disorders and family difficulties such as parental substance abuse. Some families are involved with many different services but little is known about what middle childhood factors moderate the risk of poor outcomes. This paper reports the quantitative component of a mixed methods study investigating what factors can be addressed to help families improve children’s outcomes in the longer term. The paper examines six hypotheses, which emerged from a qualitative longitudinal study of the service experiences of eleven vulnerable families followed over five years. The hypotheses concern factors which could be targeted by interventions, services and policy to help reduce children’s behaviour problems in the longer term. SN - 2050-7283 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-018-0254-z DO - 10.1186/s40359-018-0254-z ID - Stevens2018 ER -