A personality disorder whose essential feature is a pervasive pattern of disregard for, and violation of, the rights of others that begins in childhood or early adolescence and continues into adulthood. The individual must be at least age 18 and must have a history of some symptoms of CONDUCT DISORDER before age 15. (From DSM-IV, 1994)
Conduct Disorder -- rehabilitation : Conduct disorder and behavioural parent training : research and practice / Dermot O'Reilly ; foreword by Brian Sheldon
A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms or rules are violated. These behaviors include aggressive conduct that causes or threatens physical harm to other people or animals, nonaggressive conduct that causes property loss or damage, deceitfulness or theft, and serious violations of rules. The onset is before age 18. (From DSM-IV, 1994)
Conduct disorders in children -- Sex differences. : Sex differences in antisocial behaviour : conduct disorder, delinquency, and violence in the Dunedin longitudinal study / Terrie E. Moffitt [and three others]