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  • Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age

    Recent Results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

    by David P. Farrington, Alex R. Piquero, Wesley G. Jennings, Darrick Jolliffe ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This second edition book advances knowledge about criminal careers throughout life. It presents new results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), which is a unique longitudinal study of the development of offending from age 10 to age 61. Previous results obtained in the CSDD are reviewed, and then new findings from official criminal records up to age 61 are presented: on ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • Saving Children from a Life of Crime

    Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions

    by David P. Farrington, Brandon C. Welsh ...
    Series series Studies in Crime and Public Policy
    After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness ... Read more

    $39.19 CAD

  • Handbook of Crime Correlates

    by Lee Ellis, David P. Farrington, Anthony W. Hoskin ...
    The Handbook of Crime Correlates, Second Edition summarizes more than a century of worldwide research on traits and social conditions associated with criminality and antisocial behavior. Findings are provided in tabular form, enabling readers to determine at a glance the nature of each association. Within each table, results are listed by country, type of crime (or other forms of antisocial ... Read more

    $88.79 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology

    Edited by David P. Farrington, Lila Kazemian, Alex R. Piquero ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Developmental and life-course criminology are both concerned with the study of changes in offending and problem behaviors over time. Developmental studies in criminology focus on psychological factors that influence the onset and persistence of criminal behavior, while life-course studies analyze how changes in social arrangements, like marriage, education or social networks, can lead to changes ... Read more

    Was $197.89 CAD Now $158.39 CAD

  • Communities that Care

    Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems

    by Abigail A. Fagan, J. David Hawkins, David P. Farrington, Richard F. Catalano ...
    Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems. However, few functional models exist. In Communities that Care, four leading experts on prevention describe one such system to illustrate how communities effectively engage in prevention activities ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems

    Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence

    by Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Welmoet B. Van Kammen ...
    Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, early sexual involvement, and mental health disorders. Knowledge of the extent of these problems and changes in their course over time is important. In its absence, interventions and health planning in ... Read more

    $116.79 CAD

  • Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood

    Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Youth Study

    by Wesley G. Jennings, Rolf Loeber, Dustin A. Pardini, Alex R. Piquero, David P. Farrington ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants. The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in 1987, and involves repeated follow-ups on several community cohorts (starting in grades 1, 4, and 7) of ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • Testing Criminal Career Theories in British and American Longitudinal Studies

    by John F. MacLeod, David P. Farrington ...
    Series series Elements in Criminology
    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. A simple theory is described, based on measures of the probability of reoffending and the frequency of ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Understanding and Preventing Recidivism of Young Offenders in Argentina

    by Mirian Susana Orlando, David P. Farrington ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This book aims to advance knowledge about the recidivism of young offenders. It reviews knowledge about risk factors for recidivism and about protective factors that encourage desistance. It then reviews quantitative research on predictors of recidivism versus desistance of young offenders in Buenos Aires, Argentina, based on following up over 100 young offenders during a two-year statutory ... Read more

    $51.29 CAD

  • Young Homicide Offenders and Victims

    Risk Factors, Prediction, and Prevention from Childhood

    by Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    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 reports show that more than 7,300 young people between the ages of 15 and 29 were murdered in 2008 alone. ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood

    Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Girls Study

    by Rolf Loeber, Wesley G. Jennings, Lia Ahonen, David P. Farrington, Alex R. Piquero ...
    Series series Law and Criminology (R0)
    This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed annually from age 10-19, the ages when criminal behavior tends to emerge. This study provides the most extensive and comprehensive investigation into ... Read more

    $70.49 CAD

  • Emotional and Behavioural Problems of Young Offenders in Singapore

    Findings from the EPYC Study

    Edited by Dongdong Li, Chi Meng Chu, David P. Farrington ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book presents the findings from the Enhancing Positive Outcomes in Youth and the Community (EPYC) study. EPYC is a ground-breaking nationwide 10-year longitudinal study on young offenders in Singapore. It focuses on understanding crime prevention, rehabilitation, and reintegration of these youths. Data were collected through yearly interviews, external assessments, and linkage of ... Read more

    $57.69 CAD