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By Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, Magda Stouthamer-Loeber, Helene Raskin White

During this quantity, best specialists within the box of delinquency speak about the results of the findings of the Pittsburgh early life examine for present conceptualizations of delinquent habit. Violence and critical robbery is exclusive in that it combines the strengths of 3 disciplines to provide an explanation for delinquency in teenagers: developmental psychopathology, criminology, and public overall healthiness. The e-book addresses questions in major components: severe offending as an end result through the years and developmental points of great offending; and elements which clarify why a few younger men develop into violent and/or devote critical crime whereas others don't. Violence and severe robbery is a source for researchers, practitioners and scholars in developmental, university and counseling psychology; psychopathology, psychiatry, public health and wellbeing and criminology.

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Forward Probability The probability that individuals escalate over time from less serious to more serious forms of offending. indb 8 Frequency The annual rate of offending. Gang Membership Self-report of being a member of a gang during the assessment period. Gun Carrying Self-report of the carrying of a gun during the assessment period. Intermediate Desistance For the youngest cohort this is defined as offending in late childhood (ages 10–12) and early adolescence (ages 13–16), followed by desistance in late adolescence (ages 17–19).

This is the additional value of our three-pathway model. indb 13 1/15/08 11:12:19 AM 14 • Violence and Serious Theft The approach we take in this volume is to further investigate escalation models of antisocial behavior, including, for the first time, presenting forward probabilities within developmental pathways to serious forms of delinquency. In addition, we present new information about persistence and desistance in offending from childhood to early adolescence. We also present findings on the longitudinal classification of individuals in their offending according to their membership of developmental trajectories.

What is the forward probability of individuals’ escalating from less serious to more serious forms of delinquency? Can individuals be classified according to their trajectories of offending? Among risk and promotive factors evident in childhood, which best predict violence and serious property crime, and what is the contribution of risk and promotive factors that emerge in adolescence? Our Conceptual and Theoretical Orientation Theories explain why phenomena occur. The number of theories of antisocial and criminal behavior is large (see overviews in Cullen, Wright, & Blevins, 2006; Dodge & Pettit, 2003; Farrington, 2005; Lahey, Moffitt, & Caspi, 2003; Thornberry & Krohn, 2003; Wilson & Herrnstein, 1985).

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