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The developmental sequences of events underlying persistence in criminal convic...
Basto-Pereira, Miguel; Jolliffe, Darrick; Farrington, David P.The relationship between multiple vulnerabilities experienced and accumulated during development, and later life-course persistent offending trajectories is well-established. However, no studies have yet systematically examined how the sequences in which these vulnerabilities are experienced may influence the persistence of criminal behaviour into adulthood. Therefore, this work investigated how the sequences i...
The Portuguese version of the Basic Empathy Scale (BES): Dimensionality and mea...
Anastácio, Susana; Vagos, Paula; Nobre-Lima, Luiza; Rijo, Daniel; Jolliffe, DarrickEmpathy is the heightened ability to cognitively perceive and/or affectively share the emotions of others, which has been consistently associated with desirable social interactions. This paper aimed to test the bi-factorial structure of a Portuguese version of the Basic Empathy Scale and examine its variation by gender and age using a large community sample (n=1029) of adolescents. The two-factor model, origina...