Criminal Propensity and Personality Traits Among Adolescents: Analysing the Role of Psychoticism, Extraversion and Neuroticism.

Although broad criminological trends often show higher male involvement in detected delinquency, the present findings indicate no statistically or practically significant gender difference in composite criminal propensity scores (means 15.48 vs. 15.73; p > .34; Cohen’s d ≈ −0.07).

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