Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts

1. Front Matter

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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.

• Cohort Study
• Delinquency
• IRA
• Mental Health
• Nation
• criminology
• health
• interview
• police
• school
• state
• university

• 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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