Testing Criminal Career Theories in British and American - Longitudinal Studie

"More recent research on age and crime has failed to unequivocally adjudicate these two positions, but it seems as if the "criminal career" camp has garnered more support. In other words, more recent research on age and crime has shown that there is a benefit to longitudinal methodologies, that something is to be gained by examining different parts of the criminal career, and that the relationship between age and crime is not entirely invariant"--

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The Offenders Index (OI) and the Risk/Rate Model; 3. Application to the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD); 4. Childhood Prediction of Risk/Rate categories in the CSDD; 5. Application to the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS); 6. Childhood Prediction of Risk/Rate Categories in the PYS; 7. Final Conclusions.

Summary

Most criminological theories are not truly scientific, since they do not yield exact quantitative predictions of criminal career features, such as the prevalence and frequency of offending at different ages. This Element aims to make progress towards more scientific criminological theories.

Product details

• Authors: David P. Farrington, David P. (University of Cambridge) Farrington, Farrington David P., John F. MacLeod, John F. Farrington Macleod, MacLeod John F.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2022
• EAN: 9781009018067
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0901806-7
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology