Healio (6/17, Gramigna) reports researchers found that male adolescents with conduct disorders who were arrested with a gun, and who specifically had “callous-unemotional traits,” had an increased risk of carrying and using a gun in a subsequent crime during the next 4 years. These traits were defined as having limited guilt, reduced empathic concern, reduced displays of appropriate emotion, and a lack of concern over performance in important activities. These findings were discovered after evaluating 1,215 male, juvenile offenders from 3 regions of the U.S. at 6 month intervals for three years, and again at 4 years. The study was published in the American Journal of Psychiatry. Psychiatric News (6/17) also covers the study.
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— “Specific traits among adolescents increase risk for gun use, “Joe Gramigna, Healio, June 17, 2020