Finally, while the focus of this paper is on the outcome of different life-patterns of aggression, it is illuminating to examine what age 8 child and family characteristics predict life-course-persistent aggression. To do this we compared the four-wave life-course-persistent-aggression group with the four-wave life-course-persistent-non-aggression group using logistic regression. The results are shown in Table III. One can see that being a male, having parents who hit you, having parents who reject you, and having parents with lower education all have significant effects in increasing the odds that a child will have life-course-persistent aggression. In contrast, none of these factors increased the risk of adolescent-limited-aggression significantly.
