Abstract

In the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), 411 London males have been followed up from age 8. Their children (generation 3 or G3) were interviewed at the average age of 25, and empathy and self-reported offending were measured in this interview. Also, the criminal records of the G3 children were searched up to the median age of 34. Affective and cognitive empathy were measured, using the Basic Empathy Scale, for 274 G3 males and 258 G3 females. Low empathy was consistently related to convictions and self-reported offending for G3 females, but it was inconsistently related for G3 males.

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