Vol. 1, No. 3 , 1995, Page 5 
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HYPERACTIVITY IS A SIGNIFICANT RISK FACTOR
for crime and delinquency.
Rachel Gittelman found that boys whose hyperactivity continued into late adolescence
"were four times more likely [than non-hyperactive males] to develop antisocial
behavior... [and] had significantly more criminal arrests and greater numbers of
incidents of school truancy, expulsion, theft and fighting." James Satterfield found that
half of the hyperactive boys who had participated in an earlier study he'd conducted
were later arrested for a felony crime; 25 percent had been institutionalized for
antisocial behavior, compared with 1 percent of non-hyperactive controls.