Cross-National Longitudinal Research on Human Development and Criminal Behavior

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Introduction. Part I: Lessons of Longitudinal Research. Natural Histories of Delinquency T.E. Moffitt. Part II: Recent Longitudinal Studies around the World. Criminal Careers in London and Stockholm: a Cross-National Comparative Study D.P. Farrington, P.-O. Wikstroem. A Longitudinal Analysis of Juvenile Arrest Histories of the 1970 Birth Cohort in Japan Y. Harada. Juvenile Justice and Child Welfare: Longitudinal Research in the State of Michigan I.M. Schwartz, S.A. Kapp, E.J. Overstreet. Methodological Annotations on Retrospection in Criminological Research P. Sutterer, T. Karger. Determinants of Patterns of Recidivism: Some Results of Survival Analysis Based on Official Crime Records of the Swiss Canton Jura S. Karstedt. Measures of Escalation and their Self and Social Control Predictors M. Le Blanc. Family Socialization and Antisocial Behavior: Searching for Causal Relationships in Longitudinal Research J. McCord. Longitudinal Research in Criminology: Promise and Practice D.S. Elliott. Examining Developmental Trajectories in Delinquency Using Accelerated Longitudinal Research Designs D. Huizinga, F.-A. Esbensen, A. Weiher. Neigborhood Context and Delinquency: a Longitudinal Analysis A.J. Lizotte, T.P. Thornberry, M.D. Krohn, D. Chard-Wierschem, D. McDowall. Initiation of Drug Selling and its Relationship with Illicit Drug Use and Serious Delinquency in Adolescent Boys W. van Kammen, E. Maguin, R. Loeber. The Probability and Timing of Rearrests for Seriously Violent Crimes: Some Descriptive Patterns in Individual Arrest Histories and their Policy Implications N.A. Weiner. Self-Reported and Officially Defined Offenses in the 1958 Philadelphia Birth Cohort R.M. Figlio. Protective Effects of Social Resources in Adolescents at High Risk for Antisocial Behavior F. Losel. Desistance from a Delinquent Way of Life? R. Mischkowitz. Part III: Clinical Approaches, Deterrence, and Socio-Economic Development. Longitudinal Research from the Point of View of Clinical Criminology U. Gatti, A. Verde. Criminological Research: From Cohort Studies to Clinical Epidemiology KA.M. Favard. Identification and Interpersonal Maturity: Contribution to a Developmental Approach of Juvenile Delinquency E. van Poppel, M. Born. Evidence for the Adoption of a Learning Theory Approach to Criminal Deterrence: a Preliminary Study P.A. Brennan, S.A. Mednick. Development and Crime: an Explanatory Study in Yugoslavia U. Zvekic. Part IV: Future Directions of Longitudinal Research. Communities Change, Too M.W. Klein. Next Steps in Criminal Career Research A. Blumstein. A Case for a Longitudinal Study C.-G. Janson. Towards Comparative Societal Longitudinal Studies A.J. Reiss, Jr. Epilogue: Workshop and Plenary Discussions, and Future Directions E.G.M. Weitekamp, H.-J. Kerner.