Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age Recent Results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development /

• Main Authors: Farrington, David P. (Author), Piquero, Alex R. (Author), Jennings, Wesley G. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Criminology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Social policy.; Criminology.; Sociology.; Social Sciences.; Criminology & Criminal Justice.; Sociology, general.; Social Policy.

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...

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.