Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (Cambridge Studies in Criminology) - Hardcover

Piquero, Alex R.; Farrington, David P.; Blumstein, Alfred

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521848652 ISBN 13: 9780521848657

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2007

Synopsis

This book examines several contentious and under-studied criminal career issues using one of the world's most important longitudinal studies, the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), a longitudinal study of 411 South London boys followed in criminal records to age 40. The analysis reported in the book explores issues related to prevalence, offending frequency, specialization, onset sequences, co-offending, chronicity, career length, and trajectory estimation. The results of the study are considered in the context of developmental/life-course theories, and the authors outline an agenda for criminal career research generally, and within the context of the CSDD specifically.

About this title

Book Description:

This book presents one of the world's most descriptive accounts of the criminal careers of 411 South London boys followed to age 40. It highlights the longitudinal patterning of criminal activity as well as the factors that distinguish between different types of offenders.

About the Author:

Alex R. Piquero, Ph.D. is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at the University of Florida. He currently serves on the editorial boards of eleven journals including: Criminology, the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, the Journal of Quantitative Criminology, etc. He has been recognized as the leading publisher of articles in criminology/criminal justice from 1996-2000 and again from 2000-4 by articles published in the Journal of Criminal Justice.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0521848652
• ISBN 13: 9780521848657
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256