The impact of psychopathology, race, and environmental context on violent offending in a male adolescent sample.

@article{BaskinSommers2016TheIO,
  title={The impact of psychopathology, race, and environmental context on violent offending in a male adolescent sample.},
  author={Arielle R Baskin-Sommers and Deborah R. Baskin and I. G. Sommers and Ava T. Casados and Molly K Crossman and Shabnam Javdani},
  journal={Personality disorders},
  year={2016},
  volume={7 4},
  pages={
          354-362
        }
}
Research has identified a multitude of demographic, psychological, and contextual factors that are associated with violent offending among youth. However, much of the previous research has focused on single factors, and little is known about the effects of these various factors in tandem. The present study examines whether certain community factors impact the effects of race and psychopathology on violent crime. Multivariate analyses were used to investigate race-psychopathology combinations… 
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