A. A repetitive and persistent pattern of behavior in which
the basic rights of others or major age-appropriate societal norms
or rules are violated, as manifested by the presence of 3 (or more)
of the following criteria in the past 12 months, with at least 1
criterion present in the past 6 months: |
Aggression to people and animals |
1. Often bullies, threatens, or intimidates
others |
2. Often initiates physical fights |
3. Has used a weapon that can cause serious
physical harm to others (eg, a bat, brick, broken bottle, knife,
gun) |
4. Has been physically cruel to people |
5. Has been physically cruel to animals |
6. Has stolen while confronting a victim (eg,
mugging, purse snatching, extortion, armed robbery) |
7. Has forced someone into sexual activity |
Destruction of property |
8. Has deliberately engaged in fire setting
with the intention of causing serious damage |
9. Has deliberately destroyed others’ property
(other than by fire setting) |
Deceitfulness or theft |
10. Has broken into someone else’s
house, building, or car |
11. Often lies to obtain goods or favors or
to avoid obligations (ie, “cons” others) |
12. Has stolen items of nontrivial value without
confronting a victim (eg, shoplifting but without breaking and entering,
forgery) |
Serious violations of rules |
13. Often stays out at night despite parental
prohibitions, beginning before age 13 years |
14. Has run away from home overnight at least
twice while living in parental or parental surrogate home (or once
without returning for a lengthy period) |
15. Is often truant from school, beginning before
age 13 years |
B. The disturbance in behavior causes clinically significant
impairment in social, academic, or occupational functioning. |
C. If the individual is age 18 years or older, criteria are
not met for antisocial personality disorder. |
Specify type based on age at onset: |
Childhood-onset type: onset
of at least 1 criterion characteristic of conduct disorder prior
to age 10 years |
Adolescent-onset type: absence
of any criteria characteristic of conduct disorder prior to age
10 years |
Specify severity: |
Mild: few if any conduct problems
in excess of those required to make the diagnosis and conduct problems
cause only minor harm to others |
Moderate: number of conduct
problems and effect on others intermediate between “mild” and “severe” |
Severe: many conduct problems
in excess of those required to make the diagnosis, or conduct problems
cause considerable harm to others |