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Prospective Studies of Crime and Delinquency

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  • © 1983

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  1. Katherine Teilmann Dusen

    1. Social Science Research Institute, University of Southern California, USA

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  2. Sarnoff A. Mednick

    1. Social Science Research Institute, University of Southern California, USA

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Katherine Teilmann Van Dusen, Sarnoff A. Mednick
      Pages 1-4

  3. Criminal Behavior

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5
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    2. Delinquency in Two Birth Cohorts

      • Marvin E. Wolfgang
      Pages 7-16

    3. Offending from 10 to 25 Years of Age

      • David P. Farrington
      Pages 17-37

    4. Genetic Influences in Criminal Behavior:Evidence from an Adoption Cohort

      • Sarnoff A. Mednick, William F. Gabrielli Jr., Barry Hutchings
      Pages 39-56

    5. Social Class and Crime:Genetics and Environment

      • Katherine Teilmann Van Dusen, Sarnoff A. Mednick, William F. Gabrielli Jr., Barry Hutchings
      Pages 57-71

    6. School and Family Origins of Delinquency:Comparisons by Sex

      • Margaret E. Ensminger, Sheppard G. Kellam, Barnett R. Rubin
      Pages 73-97

    7. A Psychosocial Approach to Recidivism

      • W. Buikhuisen, B. W. G. P. Meijs
      Pages 99-115

    8. Testing a General Theory of Deviant Behavior in Longitudinal Perspective

      • Howard B. Kaplan, Cynthia Robbins
      Pages 117-146

    9. Delinquency among Metropolitan Boys:A Progress Report

      • Carl-Gunnar Janson
      Pages 147-180

    10. Hyperactive Boys and their Brothers at 21:Predictors of Aggressive and Antisocial Outcomes

      • Jan Loney, Mary Anne Whaley-Klahn, Todd Kosier, Jay Conboy
      Pages 181-207

  4. Violence and Psychopathy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 209-209
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    2. Criminal Violence in a Birth Cohort

      • Patricia Guttridge, William F. Gabrielli Jr., Sarnoff A. Mednick, Katherine Teilmann Van Dusen
      Pages 211-224

    3. Criminal History of the Male Psychopath: Some Preliminary Data

      • Robert D. Hare, Jeffrey W. Jutai
      Pages 225-236

    4. Testosterone in the Development of Aggressive Antisocial Behavior in Adolescents

      • Dan Olweus
      Pages 237-247

    5. Violent Crime in a Birth Cohort: Copenhagen 1953–1977

      • Erik Høgh, Preben Wolf
      Pages 249-267

    6. A Longitudinal Study of Aggression and Antisocial Behavior

      • Joan McCord
      Pages 269-275

    7. Aggression and Criminality in a Longitudinal Perspective

      • David Magnusson, HÃ¥kan Stattin, Anders Dunér
      Pages 277-301

    8. Linear Causal Modeling of Adaptation and Criminal History in Sexual Offenders

      • Raymond Knight, Robert Prentky, Beth Schneider, Ruth Rosenberg
      Pages 303-341
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Katherine Teilmann Van Dusen and Sarnoff A. Mednick This introduction delineates what we consider to be three of the most important impediments to the advance of knowledge in the field of criminology. The most fundamental need is for more studies of the nature and progress of criminal and delinquent careers. The second need is for more prospective, longitudinal studies of the etiology of crime and delinquency. The third need concerns the lack of interdisciplinary research toward a more integrated understanding of delinquent and criminal behavior. Criminal and Delinquent Careers The birth cohort study by Wolfgang, Figlio and Sellin (1972) was heralded by many (Farrington, 1973; Erickson, 1973; Weis, 1974) as a landmark which allowed researchers to study the course of delinquency without the usual sampling biases that plagued other, cross-sectional research. For the first time, we could get a reasonable picture of when delinquency usually starts, what proportion of the population engages in delinquency, what types of delinquencies they engage in, what proportion continue, and so on. Cross sectional studies do not permit the investigation of careers because cross 1 PROSPECTIVE STUDIES OF CRIME AND DELINQUENCY 2 sectional sampling includes only portions of careers for many of the individuals sampled. This is just one of the many problems that restricted researchers' ability to study the nature of criminal careers.

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  • Social Science Research Institute, University of Southern California, USA

    Katherine Teilmann Dusen, Sarnoff A. Mednick

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