Re-Examining of Moffitt’s Theory of Delinquency through Agent Based Modeling

• Main Authors: Leaw, Jia Ning, Chan, Wei Teng, Cheong, Siew Ann, Ang, Rebecca Pei-Hui, Huan, Vivien Swee Leng
• Other Authors: Hayasaka, Satoru
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/103059; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/38704
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Moffitt’s theory of delinquency suggests that at-risk youths can be divided into two groups, the adolescence- limited group and the life-course-persistent group, predetermined at a young age, and social interactions between these two groups become important during the adolescent years. We built an a...