Young Homicide Offenders and Victims Risk Factors, Prediction, and Prevention from Childhood /

• Main Authors: Loeber, Rolf (Author), Farrington, David P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2011.
• Series: Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Criminology.; Sociology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Sociology, general.

The first decade of the new century proved to be a deadly one for many children and young people in the United States. Despite increased policing on the streets, higher rates of incarceration, harsher sentencing, stricter control of illegal drugs, and attempts to reduce access to firearms, FBI repor...

Table of Contents:

• Foreword by Kathleen Heide
• Foreword by Irvin Waller
• Preface
• Young Male Homicide Offenders and Victims: Current Knowledge, Beliefs, and Key Questions
• The Pittsburgh Youth Study
• Homicide, Offenders, and Victims in the United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Youth Study
• Early Risk Factors for Convicted Homicide Offenders and Homicide Arrestees
• Prediction of Homicide Offenders out of Violent boys
• Early Risk Factors for Homicide Victims and Shooting Victims
• Homicide Offenders Speak
• Modeling the Impact of Preventive Interventions on the National Homicide Rate
• Modeling the Impact of Interventions on Local Indicators of Offending, Victimization and Incarceration
• Conclusions and Implications.