David P Farrington: 13 books
Saving Children from a Life of Crime
Early Risk Factors and Effective Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2008
After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important...
Making Public Places Safer
Surveillance and Crime Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2009
The United Kingdom has more than 4.2 million public closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras-one for every fourteen citizens. Across the United States, hundreds of video surveillance systems are being installed in town centers, public transportation facilities, and schools at a cost exceeding $100...
by Ellen G Cohn, Amaia Iratzoqui, David P. Farrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
This brief examines the influence and prestige of scholars and works in the field of Criminology and Criminal Justice, as well as changes in influence and prestige over a period of 25 years, based on citation analysis. Methods of measuring scholarly influence can be highly controversial,...
Human Development and Criminal Behavior
New Ways of Advancing Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Communities that Care
Building Community Engagement and Capacity to Prevent Youth Behavior Problems
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2018
Scholars and policymakers increasingly call for evidence-based, prevention-oriented, and community-driven approaches to improve public health and reduce youth crime, substance use, and related problems. However, few functional models exist. In Communities that Care, four leading experts on prevention...
Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age
Recent Results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2013
Offending from Childhood to Late Middle Age is a timely volume by leading researchers in Life Course Criminology, which reports new findings from The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development, a prospective longitudinal survey of 411 South London males first studied at age 8 in 1961. The main aim...
Understanding and Controlling Crime
Toward a New Research Strategy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In 1982 the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation created a small committee-the Justice Program Study Group (whose membership is listed at the end ofthis preface)-and posed to it what can hardly be regarded as an easy ques tion: "What ideas, what concepts, what basic intellectual frameworks...
Antisocial Behavior and Mental Health Problems
Explanatory Factors in Childhood and Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1998
Epidemiological surveys have provided key information about the prevalence and degree of seriousness at different ages of a wide array of problem behaviors such as delinquency, substance use, early sexual involvement, and mental health disorders. Knowledge of the extent of these problems and changes...
Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood
Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Youth Study
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2015
This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants. The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in...
Female Delinquency From Childhood To Young Adulthood
Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Girls Study
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2016
This Brief fills a gap in criminological literature, as there are few empirically-based studies on delinquency of adolescent girls. It provides results of a longitudinal study, The Pittsburgh Girls Study (PGS), which includes 2,451 girls, followed annually from age 10-19, the ages when criminal behavior...
Criminal Recidivism
Explanation, prediction and prevention
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2015
Criminal Recidivism intends to fill a gap in the criminological psychology literature by examining the processes underlying persistent criminal careers. This book aims to investigate criminal recidivism, and why, how and for how long an individual continues to commit crimes, whilst also reviewing...
by Izabela Zych, David P. Farrington, Vicente J. Llorent
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This compact resource synthesizes current research on bullying in the schools while presenting strengths-based approaches to curbing this growing epidemic. Its international review of cross-sectional and longitudinal studies unravels the complex dynamics of bullying and provides depth on the range...
Young Homicide Offenders and Victims
Risk Factors, Prediction, and Prevention from Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2011
The first decade of the new century proved to be a deadly one for many children and young people in the United States. Despite increased policing on the streets, higher rates of incarceration, harsher sentencing, stricter control of illegal drugs, and attempts to reduce access to firearms, FBI reports...