0 past simple and past participle of arrest --
1 If the police arrest someone, they take them away to ask them about a crime that they might have committed: --
2 to stop or interrupt the development of something: --
In this context, it would mean that all boys who were arrested early also had been identified even earlier as an antisocial child.
Only persons arrested at both age periods were defined as persistent criminals.
A significant linear trend was found, whereas quadratic and cubic trends, which would have indicated slowed or arrested development, were not significant.
Besides disorderly conduct, the police increasingly arrested young people for theft.
Why was the village head omitted when his accomplices were arrested the next day, and why was he still at liberty?
And it was based on this report that the police arrested the accused.
At the end of the war he went into hiding, but was arrested in 1948, tried and sentenced to death.
The policeman arrested the supervisor of the bodyguards who was wearing a black suit.
