Alfred Blumstein

David Farrington

David J. Hawkins

J. David Hawkins

This book contains essays by leading criminologists describing current theories of why juveniles commit crimes.

Current Theories

Delinquency and Crime

David P. Farrington

Alex R. Piquero

New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

Key Issues in Criminal Career Research

This book examines several contentious and under-studied criminal career issues using one of the world's most important longitudinal studies, the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD), a longitudinal study of 411 South London boys followed in criminal records to age 40. The analysis reported in the book explores issues related to prevalence, offending frequency, specialization, onset sequences, co-offending, chronicity, career length, and trajectory estimation. The results of the study are considered in the context of developmental/life-course theories, and the authors outline an agenda for criminal career research generally, and within the context of the CSDD specifically.

Darnell F. Hawkins

Darrell Hawkins

Analysts have long noted that some societies have much higher rates of criminal violence than others. They have also observed that the risk of being a victim or a perpetrator of violent crime varies considerably from one individual to another. In societies with ethnically and racially diverse populations, some ethnic and racial groups have been reported to have higher rates of violent offending and victimization than other groups. This series of essays explores the extent and causes of racial and ethnic differences in violent crime in the United States and several other contemporary societies.

Assessing Race and Ethnic Differences

Violent Crime

Alfred Blumstein

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