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From Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime Criminal Careers, Justice Policy, and Prevention

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ISBN-10: 0199828180

ISBN-13: 9780199828180

Edition: 2012

Authors: Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington

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What makes a juvenile delinquent develop into an adult criminal? What defines-cognitively, developmentally, legally-the transition from juvenile to adult and what determines whether patterns of criminal behavior persist? In most US states and Western nations, legal adulthood begins at age 18. This volume focuses on the period surrounding that abrupt transition (roughly ages 15-29) and addresses what happens to offending careers during it.Edited by two leading authorities in the fields of psychology and criminology, Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime examines why the period of transition is important and how it can be better understood and addressed both inside and outside…    
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List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 6/6/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 416
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.17" long x 1.08" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English

David P. Farrington, O.B.E., is Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, and Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic, University of Pittsburgh.  He is co-chair of the U.S. National Institute of Justice Study Group on Transitions from Juvenile Delinquency to Adult Crime and co-chair of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control Expert Panel on Protective Factors against Youth Violence. His major research interest is in developmental criminology, and he is Director of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, which is a prospective longitudinal survey of over 400 London males from age 8 to age 48. In…    

Foreword
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction
Criminal career patterns
Explanations for offending
Contextual influences
Special categories of serious and violent offenders: Drug dealers, gang members, homicide offenders, and sex offenders
Prediction and risk/needs assessments
Legal boundaries between the juvenile and criminal justice systems in the United States
Young offenders and an effective justice system response: What happens, what should happen, and what we need to know
Promoting change, changing lives: Effective prevention and intervention to reduce serious offending
European perspectives
Conclusions and headline recommendations
Index