In the NESARC study, of those participants diagnosed with ASPD, 27% were women and 38% of those diagnosed with AABS were women. Similar results were found in the present study where 36% of those with AABS diagnoses and 25% of those with ASPD were women. These results demonstrate that the more severe diagnosis of ASPD has a higher male to female sex ratio than had AABS. Relatively little is known as to how males and females differ in individual symptoms associated with adult antisocial disorders, although recent studies recent studies have identified differences in comorbidity patterns and clinical presentation of CD in girls (Konrad et al., 2022). In the present study women had fewer overall numbers of symptoms, had fewer early life symptoms such as fire setting or cruelty to animals, and were also less likely to be arrested or in jail, or to be involved in fights. Women were not found to differ from men in endorsing feelings of guilt or remorse. However, women were more likely than males to run away from home and to endorse “hitting someone”
