Advancing Knowledge about the Onset of Delinquency and Crime

Farrington, David P.; Loeber, Rolf; Elliott, Delbert S.; Hawkins, J. David; Kandel, Denise B.; Klein, Malcolm W.; McCord, Joan; Rowe, David C.; Tremblay, Richard E.

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“…Onset is the moment at which individuals show discontinuity in their behaviors for the first time; they make a transition from non-offender to offender. Most life-course studies have traditionally focused on the onset of criminal behavior and its correlates in children and adolescents [18,40]. The advent of the group-based trajectory methodology [43] enhanced the attention for other, less traditional, crime patterns such as a delayed start of offending.…”

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“…Some scholars question the existence of true adult-onset offenders (onset at or after age 18) and argue that adult onset in crime is so rare that it does not deserve research attention at all [42]. Others contend that adult-onset offenders are an artifact of the use of register data and that adult-onset offenders have most characteristics in common with early-onset offenders [51,70].…”

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Criminal Career Dimensions of Juvenile- and Adult-Onset Offenders

Köppen

2018

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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Purpose Earlier studies tried to predict and explain adult-onset offending, most often by comparing risk factors for juvenile and adult onset of criminal behavior. Little is known, however, about how criminal careers of adult-onset offenders develop. The aim of this study is to describe and compare juvenile-and adult-onset criminal careers of both men and women in terms of frequency, intensity, duration, recidivism, crime mix, seriousness, and specialization. Methods Using a sample of 43,338 offenders who all had a criminal record in 2013, criminal careers are reconstructed retrospectively up to age 12 and prospectively up to the 1st of July, 2014. Male and female juvenile-and adult-onset offenders are identified and compared on the abovementioned parameters of their criminal careers. Results Compared to all other groups, female adult-onset offenders commit fewer crimes, offend at a lower rate, desist from crime earlier, have lower recidivism risks at least up to the tenth crime, commit different types of offenses, commit more minor and less serious crimes, and are more specialized in the types of crime they commit. Male juvenile-onset offenders have the most serious career in terms of these career dimensions. Conclusions Criminal careers of adult-onset offenders, both men and women, develop differently on all dimensions. Implications for life-course criminological theories and prevention strategies are discussed.Keywords Adult-onset offending . Criminal career dimensions J Dev Life Course Criminology (2018) 4:92-119 https://doi

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Criminal Career Dimensions of Juvenile- and Adult-Onset Offenders

Köppen

2018

J Dev Life Course Criminology

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“…According to one application of this theory, high rates of community violence result in social disorganization, which weakens the ability of prosocial institutions (e.g., schools, families) to control and monitor their youth (Farrington et al, 1990). Consequently, failed schools and local social institutions offer adolescents scant hope for the future, and adolescents feel uncommitted to conventional societal norms (Petraitis, Flay & Miller, 1995).…”

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Pathways to Drug and Sexual Risk Behaviors among Detained Adolescents

Voisin

Neilands

Salazar

et al. 2008

Social Work Research

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Purpose-Among a sample of detained youth, to investigate pathways that link witnessing community violence, in the 12 months prior to being detained, to drug and sexual risk behaviors, in the two months preceding detainment.Methods-Using A-CASI technology, data was collected from 559 detained adolescents on demographics, family factors, peer influences, religiosity, witnessing community violence, and drug and sexual risk behaviors.Results-Controlling for demographics and family variables, findings indicated positive associations between witnessing community violence and drug and sexual risk behaviors. Witnessing community violence was directly linked to sexual risk behaviors, and indirectly associated with these risk behaviors, through gang membership and perceived risky peer norms. Additionally, witnessing community violence was indirectly linked to substance use through gang membership and perceived risky peer norms.Conclusions-Interventions targeting change in peer affiliations and perceived norms may be an effective strategy for reducing risky drug and sexual behaviors among detained youth.

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“…La mayoría de los estudios se han centrado en dos aspectos: la edad de inicio de las conductas agresivas y su estabilidad (Olweus, 1979;Farrington et al 1990;Haapsalo y Tremblay, 1994;Moffitt, Caspi, Dickson, Silva y Stanton, 1996;Keenan y Show, 1997).…”

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Estabilidad y predicción de la agresión física desde la infancia hasta la adolescencia: un estudio con múltiples informants [Stability and prediction of physical agresión from childhood to adolescence: A multi-informant study]

Gerbino¹,

Caprara²,

Caprara

2006

Acción psicol.

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ResumenEl objetivo del estudio es examinar la estabilidad y el valor predictivo de la agresión física y verbal evaluada por múltiples informantes (los propios niños, sus profesores y compañeros) desde la última etapa de la niñez a la adolescencia media, la convergencia entre informantes y el valor predictivo a largo plazo de la agresión física y verbal con respecto a diferentes indicadores de ajuste (rendimiento escolar, aceptación social, comportamiento prosocial) y desequilibrio (depresión, delincuencia). Como parte de un proyecto longitudinal italiano se examinaron a 372 niños (204 varones y 168 mujeres) que fueron evaluados anualmente desde el momento 1 (edad 9.5) hasta el momento 5 (edad 13.5).Los resultados evidenciaron diferencias de género en la frecuencia y estabilidad de la agresión física y verbal en las evaluaciones de los diferentes informantes. Además ponen de relieve la estabilidad de las diferencias individuales en agresión fisica y verbal y un descenso generalizado en los valores medios. Los resultados confirman aquellas hipótesis que señalan la agresión infantil referida por diferentes informantes a la edad de 9.5 años como un factor de riesgo que anticipa diferentes manifestaciones desadaptativas futuras. AbstractAim of the study is to examine the stability and the predictive value of physical and verbal aggression reported by different informants (self, teachers and peer) from late childhood to middle adolescence), the inter informant agreement and their distal predictive values on indicators of adjustment (academic achievement, social preference, prosocial behavior) and maladjustment (depression, delinquency). As part of an Italian longitudinal project, 372 children (204 males and 168 females) participating at the study were examined annually from time 1 ( age 9.5) to time 5 (age 13.5). Results show gender differences in frequency and stability of physical and verbal aggression across informants. Futhermore they attest to the stability of individual differences in physical and verbal aggression and an overall decreasing at the mean level . Findings call attention on the risk associated to be highly aggressive according to different informants at age 9.5 and to later maladjustment outcomes 1 La presente investigación co-dirigida por Gian Vittorio Caprara y Albert Bandura ha sido parcialmente financiada por el Instituto Superior de Sanidad en el ámbito del proyecto Nacional de Salud Mental y por la Fundación Spencer y Grant.

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Advancing Knowledge about the Onset of Delinquency and Crime

Cited by 220 publications

References 120 publications

Criminal Career Dimensions of Juvenile- and Adult-Onset Offenders

Criminal Career Dimensions of Juvenile- and Adult-Onset Offenders

Pathways to Drug and Sexual Risk Behaviors among Detained Adolescents

Estabilidad y predicción de la agresión física desde la infancia hasta la adolescencia: un estudio con múltiples informants [Stability and prediction of physical agresión from childhood to adolescence: A multi-informant study]

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