Key Issues in Criminal Career Research
Auteur: Alex R. Piquero, David P. Farrington, Alfred Blumstein
Nombre de pages: 218 pages
ISBN: 1139459929, 9781139459921
Edition: Cambridge University Press
Date de publication: Cambridge University Press
Description: This book examines several contentious and under-studied criminal career issues using one of the world's most important longitudinal studies, the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), a longitudinal study of 411 South London boys followed in criminal records to age 40. The analysis reported in the book explores issues related to prevalence, offending frequency, specialization, onset sequences, co-offending, chronicity, career length, and trajectory estimation. The results of the study are considered in the context of developmental/life-course theories, and the authors outline an agenda for criminal career research generally, and within the context of the CSDD specifically.