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The paper discusses methodological issues that confound interpretations of longitudinal studies. The paper addresses some of the problems in relation to a forty-year study of males.
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McCord, J. (1994). Family Socialization and Antisocial Bahavior: Searching for Causal Relationships in Longitudinal Research. In: Weitekamp, E.G.M., Kerner, HJ. (eds) Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior. NATO ASI Series, vol 76. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-0864-5_8
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