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Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts

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  1. Paul E. Tracy

    1. College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

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  2. Marvin E. Wolfgang

    1. Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

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  3. Robert M. Figlio

    1. University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

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Part of the book series: The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice (PSIC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 1-4

  3. Cohort Studies in Criminology

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 5-12

  4. Contemporary Issues in Longitudinal Research

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 13-20

  5. The 1958 Birth Cohort Study

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 21-35

  6. The Prevalence of Delinquency

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 37-56

  7. The Incidence of Delinquency

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 57-79

  8. The Chronic Juvenile Offender

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 81-97

  9. Delinquent Recidivism

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 99-112

  10. Delinquent Recidivism

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 113-174

  11. Age-at-Onset and Delinquency

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 175-211

  12. Delinquency and Age-at-Offense

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 213-243

  13. Police and Court Dispositions

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 245-272

  14. Summary and Implications

    • Paul E. Tracy, Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio
    Pages 273-298

  15. Back Matter

    Pages 299-308
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Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, published in 1972, was the first criminologi­ cal birth cohort study in the United States. Nils Christie, in Unge norske lovorertredere, had done the first such study as his dissertation at the University of Oslo in 1960. Professor Thorsten Sellin was the inspiration for the U.S. study. He could read Norwegian, and I could a little because I studied at the University of Oslo in my graduate years. Our interest in pursuing a birth cohort study in the United States was fostered by the encouragement of Saleem Shah who awarded us a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to begin our birth cohort studies at the University of Pennsylvania by investigating the delinquency of the 1945 cohort. We studied this group of 9,945 boys extensively through official criminal history and school records of their juvenile years. Subsequently, we followed up the cohort as adults using both adult arrest histories and an interview of a sample of the cohort. Our follow-up study was published as From Boy to Man, From Delinquen­ cy to Crime in 1987.

Authors and Affiliations

  • College of Criminal Justice, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

    Paul E. Tracy

  • Sellin Center for Studies in Criminology and Criminal Law, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA

    Marvin E. Wolfgang

  • University of California, Riverside, Riverside, USA

    Robert M. Figlio

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