Are Life-Course-Persistent Offenders At Risk for Adverse Health Outcomes?
Alex R. Piquero John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York Graduate Center Leah E. Daigle Georgia Southern University, Statesboro Chris Gibson Georgia Southern University, Statesboro Nicole Leeper Piquero John Jay College of Criminal Justice City University of New York Graduate Center Stephen G. Tibbetts California State University, San Bernardino Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy of adolescence-limited and life-course-persistent offenders has received much empirical attention, with researchers focusing on the etiology and trajectory of offending between the two groups. Recently, Moffitt articulated a new hypothesis that has yet to be empirically assessed that life-course-persistent offenders will be at high risk in midlife for poor physical and mental health, cardiovascular disease, and early disease morbidity. Using data from the Baltimore portion of the National Collaborative Perinatal Project, a longitudinal study of several thousand individuals followed from
