Anna Saunders’s scientific contributions

... It is therefore noteworthy that the same processes hold true at the extremes of the distribution of antisocial behaviour, particularly given the popular and scientific presumptions about the difficulty of improving the life chances of this population. Furthermore, the prediction of costs from attachment security was independent of three factors that are well known to be associated with increased offending -older age, higher level of antisocial behaviour, and lower verbal IQ [9,12,[29][30][31][32]. Intervention studies commonly target attachment quality, including in adolescence [33], and there is now evidence that even children with a history of severe abuse and neglect can form secure attachments in adolescence [34]. ...

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Secure attachment predicts lower societal cost amongst severely antisocial adolescents