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Taking stock of delinquency [electronic resource] : an overview of findings from contemporary longitudinal studies / [edited by] Terence P. Thornberry and Marvin D. Krohn.

Contributor(s): Thornberry, Terence P | Krohn, Marvin D | ebrary, Inc.
Series: Longitudinal research in the social and behavioral sciences: Publisher: New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2003Description: xviii, 332 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Juvenile delinquency -- Longitudinal studies | Juvenile delinquents -- United States -- Longitudinal studies | Juvenile delinquents -- Psychology -- Longitudinal studies | Deviant behavior -- Longitudinal studies | Developmental psychology -- Longitudinal studies | Juvenile delinquency -- Prevention -- Longitudinal studiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 364.36 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view

The development of panel studies of delinquency -- Causes and consequences of delinquency : findings from the Rochester Youth Development study -- Delinquency and crime : some highlights from the Denver youth survey -- The development of male offending : key findings from 14 years of the Pittsburgh youth study -- Key results from the first forty years of the Cambridge study in delinquent development -- Testing an integrative theory of deviant behavior : theory-syntonic findings from a long-term multi-generation study -- The Montreal longitudinal and experimental study : rediscovering the power of descriptions -- Understanding and preventing crime and violence : findings from the Seattle social development project -- Common themes, future directions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.