Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age : Recent Results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development. 1st ed. 2013

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by David P. Farrington, Alex R. Piquero, Wesley G. Jennings

出版情報:

New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013

著者名:

• Farrington, David P.
• Piquero, Alex R.
• Jennings, Wesley G.
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シリーズ名:

SpringerBriefs in Criminology ;

ISBN:

9781461461050 [1461461057]    

注記:

Introduction -- The Cambridge Study: previous results -- The Social Interview at Age 48 -- Official Criminal Careers -- Self-reported versus official offending -- Life Success at Age 48 -- Persisters, desisters, and late onset offenders -- Psychopathy at age 48 -- Death at age 48 -- Costs and benefits of offending -- Conclusions and Policy Implications.
Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age is a timely volume by leading researchers in Life Course Criminology, which reports new findings from The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a prospective longitudinal survey of 411 South London males first studied at age 8 in 1961. The main aim of the study is to advance knowledge about criminal careers up to age 56.   At the time of these most recent findings, forty-two percent of the males were convicted, with an average ten-year conviction career. Only seven percent of the males accounted for half of all convictions. Almost all of the males (93 percent) reported committing an offense in four age ranges, compared with 29 percent who were convicted at these ages. There were on average of 39 self-reported offenses per conviction. Group-based trajectory analyses indicated that, while there were distinct groups of offenders who followed different age-crime trajectories between ages 10 and 56, five groups best characterized the criminal careers of the men, wit

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