Violence and Serious Theft: Development and Prediction from Childhood to Adulthood

by Loeber; Rolf

• ISBN13: 9780805852226
• ISBN10: 0805852220
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781135606428
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-08
• Publisher: Routledge
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Summary

In Violence and Serious Theft, top experts in the field of delinquency discuss the implications of the findings of the Pittsburgh Youth Study for current conceptualizations of antisocial behavior. The volume is unique in that it combines the strengths of three disciplines to explain delinquency in young people: developmental psychopathology, criminology, and public health. The book addresses questions in two main areas: serious offending as an outcome over time and developmental aspects of serious offending; and factors which explain why some young males become violent and/or commit serious crime while others do not. Violence and Serious Theft is a resource for researchers, practitioners and students in developmental, school and counseling psychology; psychopathology, psychiatry, public health and criminology.

Author Biography

Rolf Loeber, PhD, is distinguished professor of psychiatry, and professor of psychology and epidemiology at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as professor of juvenile delinquency and social development, at Free University, the Netherlands David P. Farrington, PhD, is professor of psychological criminology at Cambridge University Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, PhD, is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh Helene Raskin White, PhD, is professor of sociology with a joint appointment in the Center of Alcohol Studies and Sociology Department at Rutgers University

Table of Contents

List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. xi
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Contributors	p. xxiii
Introduction and Methods
Introduction and Key Questions	p. 3
The Pittsburgh Youth Study: Its Design, Data Collection, and Early Key Findings	p. 25
Measurement Instruments and Constructs	p. 39
The Epidemiology of Violence, Serious Theft, Substance Use, Drug Dealing, and Gang Membership
The Age-Crime Curve in Reported Offending	p. 77
Comparing Arrests and Convictions with Reported Offending	p. 105
Substance Use, Drug Dealing, Gang Membership, and Gun Carrying and Their Predictive Associations with Serious Violence and Serious Theft	p. 137
Prediction of Violence, Serious Theft, and Desistance
Promotive and Risk Processes at Different Life Stages	p. 169
Developmental Trajectories of Violence and Theft	p. 231
Desistance from and Persistence in Offending	p. 269
Conclusions
Conclusions and Policy Implications	p. 309
Publications from the Pittsburgh Youth Study	p. 349
References	p. 335
Index	p. 375
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