Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Tracy, Paul E
• Wolfgang, Marvin E
• Figlio, Robert M

Titel

Delinquency Careers in Two Birth Cohorts

Ist Teil von

• The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice

Ort / Verlag

Boston, MA : Springer US

Erscheinungsjahr

1990

Link zum Volltext

• Volltext

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• 1. Introduction -- 2. Cohort Studies in Criminology -- The Recognized Need for Cohort Studies -- Previous Studies of a Cohort Character -- Subsequent Studies of a Cohort Character -- Why a New Birth Cohort Study? -- 3. Contemporary Issues in Longitudinal Research -- Criminal Careers Historically -- The Value of Longitudinal Research on Criminal Careers -- 4. The 1958 Birth Cohort Study -- Objectives -- Capturing the Cohort -- Collection of Police Data -- Measuring Delinquency -- Scaling the Gravity of Crime -- The Seriousness Scoring System -- Measuring Socioeconomic Status -- Background Data -- 5. The Prevalence of Delinquency -- Race and SES -- Background Variables -- 6. The Incidence of Delinquency -- Extent of Delinquency -- Severity of Delinquency -- 7. The Chronic Juvenile Offender -- Chronicity and Frequency of Delinquency -- Chronicity and Severity of Delinquency -- 8. Delinquent Recidivism: Static Probabilities -- The First Offense -- Rank Number of Offense -- 9. Delinquent
• Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, published in 1972, was the first criminological birth cohort study in the United States. Nils Christie, in Unge norske lovorertredere, had done the first such study as his dissertation at the University of Oslo in 1960. Professor Thorsten Sellin was the inspiration for the U.S. study. He could read Norwegian, and I could a little because I studied at the University of Oslo in my graduate years. Our interest in pursuing a birth cohort study in the United States was fostered by the encouragement of Saleem Shah who awarded us a grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to begin our birth cohort studies at the University of Pennsylvania by investigating the delinquency of the 1945 cohort. We studied this group of 9,945 boys extensively through official criminal history and school records of their juvenile years. Subsequently, we followed up the cohort as adults using both adult arrest histories and an interview of a sample of the cohort. Our follow-up study was published as From Boy to Man, From Delinquency to Crime in 1987