Understanding and Controlling Crime

Farrington, David P.; Ohlin, Lloyd E.; Wilson, James Q.

doi:10.1007/978-1-4612-4940-5

Cited by 282 publications

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“…Five to seven percent of boys demonstrate this pattern of CP, and they typically account for about 50% of antisocial acts performed by children (for a review, see Farrington, Ohlin, & Wilson, 1986). Moffitt (1993) refers to this subgroup of boys as Life-Course Persistent (LCP); Patterson (Patterson, Capaldi, & Bank, 1991) calls them ''early starters.…”

Section: Theories About How Cp Developsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Do the Predictors of Child Conduct Problems Vary by High- and Low-Levels of Socioeconomic and Neighborhood Risk?

Schonberg

Shaw

2007

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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This review seeks to examine whether the existing literature on child conduct problems (CP) supports the notion that certain CP risk factors vary in their importance across disadvantaged and better-off environments. Disadvantaged environments are represented by socioeconomic and/or neighborhood risk (SN risk) in this review. Three types of studies were reviewed: behavioral genetic studies that compare the importance of genetic and environmental influences on CP for youth from poor homes and/or disadvantaged communities versus youth from better-off contexts, studies that examine how SN risk and other CP risk factors interact, and studies that compare the antecedents for CP across levels of SN risk. Findings were inconsistent about the manner in which individual child risk factors interact with SN risk. However, familial risk factors were generally found to be of greater importance for youth from poor families and disadvantaged communities, particularly parental supervision. Most of the studies that indicated otherwise focused on physical discipline, or were limited to children from disadvantaged and extremely deprived environments. The findings suggest that in extremely deprived environments, familial influences are overwhelmed by the pervasiveness of other CP risk factors such as deviant peers. Implications for intervention and suggestions for future research are discussed.

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Section: Theories About How Cp Developsmentioning

confidence: 97%

Do the Predictors of Child Conduct Problems Vary by High- and Low-Levels of Socioeconomic and Neighborhood Risk?

Schonberg

Shaw

2007

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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“…I used multiple sources to generate this list. The works of Farrington, Ohlin, and Wilson (1986); Farrington (1983), and Farrington and Welsh (2005) cover randomized experiments from 1957 to 2005. This list was supplemented by randomized experiments (those coded as a 5 on the Maryland Scale of Scientific Methods) from the 1997 Maryland report to the U.S. Congress (Sherman et al 1997) and also the updates of the book version of the report on evidence-based crime prevention (Sherman et al 2002).…”

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Citation analysis of randomized experiments in criminology and criminal justice: a research note

Telep

2009

J Exp Criminol

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In recent years multiple studies have used citation analysis as a way to examine the most cited scholars and works in criminology and criminal justice and its subfields. This study is the first to focus on the most cited randomized experiments in criminological research. Using citation counts from both Social Science Citation Index and Google Scholar, and multiple sources of randomized experiments, I present the most cited experiments in six areas: policing, courts, corrections, schools, community, and early prevention. Experiments published in non-criminological (e.g., medical) journals tend to be the most cited, and early prevention research is generally cited most frequently of the six categories. I conclude by considering possible reasons why certain experiments are more cited than others.

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“…This meant that we chose many different sources and generated a wide range of keywords to apply in electronic searches. It is well known that the knowledge base across criminal justice is disparate and fragmented (Farrington et al 1986;Hammerstrøm et al 2010), and that studies on crime prevention span many fields. To ensure that we were not limited to our own disciplinary boundaries (and thereby liable to introduce bias into the selection of studies-see Brunton et al 2013), wide-ranging and multi-disciplinary sources were selected.…”

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Information retrieval in systematic reviews: a case study of the crime prevention literature

Tompson

Belur

2015

J Exp Criminol

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Objectives A defining feature of a systematic review is the data collection; the assembling of a meticulous, unbiased, and reproducible set of primary studies. This requires specialist skills to execute. The aim of this paper is to marshal tacit knowledge, gained through a systematic search of the crime prevention literature, to develop a 'how-to guide' for future evidence synthesists in allied fields.Methods Empirical results from a recent systematic search for evidence in crime prevention are supplied to illustrate key principles of information retrieval. Results Difficulties in operationalizing a systematic search are expounded and possible solutions discussed. Empirical results from optimizing the balance between sensitivity and precision with the criminological literature are presented. An estimation of database overlap for crime prevention studies is provided to guide other evidence synthesists in streamlining the search process. Conclusions A high-quality search will involve a substantial time investment in honing the research question, specifying the precise scope of the work, and trialing and testing of search tactics. Electronic databases are a lucrative source of eligible studies, but they have important limitations. The diversity of expression across the criminological literature needs to be captured by the use of many search terms-both natural language and controlled vocabulary-in database searches. Complementary search tactics should be employed to locate eligible studies without common vocabulary. Grey literature should be ardently pursued, for it has a central role in the crime prevention evidence base.

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Understanding and Controlling Crime

Cited by 282 publications

References 70 publications

Do the Predictors of Child Conduct Problems Vary by High- and Low-Levels of Socioeconomic and Neighborhood Risk?

Do the Predictors of Child Conduct Problems Vary by High- and Low-Levels of Socioeconomic and Neighborhood Risk?

Citation analysis of randomized experiments in criminology and criminal justice: a research note

Information retrieval in systematic reviews: a case study of the crime prevention literature

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