Offending from childhood to late middle age : recent results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development / David P. Farrington, Alex R. Piquero, Wesley G. Jennings
Introduction to criminal careers -- The Cambridge study : previous results -- Official criminal careers -- Self-reported versus official offending -- Trajectories of offending to age 56 -- Conclusions -- Cambridge Study publications as of June 2012
Summary
Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age is a timely volume by leading researchers in Life Course Criminology, which reports new findings from The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a prospective longitudinal survey of 411 South London males first studied at age 8 in 1961. The main aim of the study is to advance knowledge about criminal careers up to age 56. At the time of these most recent findings, forty-two percent of the males were convicted, with an average ten-year conviction career. Only seven percent of the males accounted for half of all convictions
