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  title info:
    title: Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age
    sub title: Recent Results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
  name:
    name part: Farrington, David P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Piquero, Alex R.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Jennings, Wesley G.
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XII, 80 p. 8 illus. online resource.
  abstract: 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, with two groups, high adolescence peak and high rate chronic, exhibiting the most offending. Also, the offending trajectories were predicted by individual and environmental childhood risk factors, with the most chronic offenders (to age 56) having the most extreme scores on childhood risk. Based on these results, risk assessment instruments could be developed and risk-focused prevention could be implemented in early childhood, including parent training, pre-school intellectual enrichment programs and home visiting programs, in order to prevent chronic styles of offending from being initiated. This work will be of interest to researchers in criminology and criminal justice, especially those with an interest in life course criminology and crime prevention, while also being of use as a research framework for other studies. It will also be of interest to researchers in sociology, psychology, and other social sciences, as well as policy makers and practitioners. “This is …
  table of contents: 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.
  note: by David P. Farrington, Alex R. Piquero, Wesley G. Jennings.
  subject:
    topic: Social sciences
  subject:
    topic: Social policy
  subject:
    topic: Criminology
  subject:
    topic: Sociology
  subject:
    topic: Social Sciences
  subject:
    topic: Criminology & Criminal Justice
  subject:
    topic: Sociology, general
  subject:
    topic: Social Policy
  classification: HV6001-7220.5
  classification: 364
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  identifier: 9781461461050
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6105-0
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    record creation date: 130107
    record change date: 20151109231140.0
    record identifier: 978-1-4614-6105-0