Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior

Inbunden, Engelska, 1993

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Beskrivning

This volume is the first to bring together the work of longitudinal researchers in the field of criminology around the world. It introduces the newest research results from these projects and focuses on the newest methodological and theoretical developments in longitudinal criminological research for the study of human development and criminal behavior. The focus of the book lies on the following areas: (Multi) Problem Behavior, Age of Onset, and Paths into Delinquent and Criminal Behavior; The Problem of Determining Incidence and Prevalence in Longitudinal Research; Paths of Crime and the Relevance of Nonintervention versus Intervention; Concepts of Criminal Careers and Career Criminals; Desistance: in Search of an Explanation: Life Styles, Life Events, Coping and Aging; Theoretical and Methodological Implications of Longitudinal Research.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1993-11-30
Mått:155 x 235 x 31 mm
Vikt:884 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:NATO Science Series D:
Antal sidor:461
Upplaga:1994
Förlag:Kluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN:9780792326205

Utforska kategorier

Brottslighet och kriminologi inom Samhälle och politik

Innehållsförteckning

I: Lessons of Longitudinal Research.- Natural Histories of Delinquency.- II: Recent Longitudinal Studies Around the World.- Criminal Careers in London and Stockholm: A Cross-National Comparative Study.- A Longitudinal Analysis of Juvenile Arrest Histories of the 1970 Birth Cohort in Japan.- Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare: Longitudinal Research in the State of Michigan.- Methodological Annotations on Retrospection in Criminological Research.- Determinants of Patterns of Recidivism: Some Results of Survival Analysis Based on Official Crime Records of the Swiss Canton Jura.- Measures of Escalation and their Self and Social Control Predictors.- Family Socialization and Antisocial Behavior: Searching for Causal Relationships in Longitudinal Research.- Longitudinal Research in Criminology: Promise and Practice.- Examining Developmental Trajectories in Delinquency Using Accelerated Longitudinal Research Designs.- Neighborhood Context and Delinquency: A Longitudinal Analysis.- Initiation of Drug Selling and Its Relationship with Illicit Drug Use and Serious Delinquency in Adolescent Boys.- The Probability and Timing of Rearrests for Serious Violent Crimes: Some Descriptive Patterns in Individual Arrest Histories and their Policy Implications.- Self-Reported and Officially Defined Offenses in the 1958 Philadelphia Birth Cohort.- Protective Effects of Social Recources in Adolescents at High Risk for Antisocial Behavior.- Desistance from a Delinquent Way of Life?.- III: Clinical Approaches, Deterrence, and Socio-Economic Development.- Longitudinal Research from the Point of View of Clinical Criminology.- Criminological Research: From Cohort Studies To Clinical Epidemiology.- Identification and Interpersonal Maturity: Contribution to a Developmental Approach of Juvenile Delinquency.- Evidence for the Adoption of a Learning Theory Approach to Criminal Deterrence: A Preliminary Study.- Development and Crime: An Explanatory Study in Yugoslavia.- IV: Future Directions of Longitudinal Research.- Communities Change, Too.- Next Steps in Criminal Career Research.- A Case for a Longitudinal Study.- Towards Comparative Societal Longitudinal Studies.- Epilogue: Workshop and Plenary Discussions, and Future Directions.