Author: Marvin E. Wolfgang
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226905587
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 116
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"Delinquency in a Birth Cohort is a turning point in criminological research in the United States," writes Norval Morris in his foreword. "What has been completely lacking until this book is an analysis of delinquency in a substantial cohort of youths, the cohort being defined other than by their contact with any part of the criminal justice system." This study of a birth cohort was not originally meant to be etiological or predictive. Yet the data bearing on this cohort of nearly ten thousand boys born in 1945 and living in Philadelphia gave rise to a model for prediction of delinquency, and thus to the possibility for more efficient planning of programs for intervention. It is expert research yielding significant applications and, though largely statistical, the analysis is accessible to readers without mathematical training. "No serious scholar of the methods of preventing and treating juvenile delinquency can properly ignore this book."—LeRoy L. Lamborn, Law Library Journal "The magnitude of [this] study is awesome. . . . It should be a useful guide for anyone interested in the intricacies of cohort analysis."—Gary F. Jensen, American Journal of Sociology "A book the student of juvenile delinquency will find invaluable."—Criminologist
Author: Paul E. Tracy
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 445
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Author: Paul E. Tracy
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1468470507
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Delinquency in a Birth Cohort, published in 1972, was the first criminologi cal 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 Delinquen cy to Crime in 1987.
Author: Marvin E. Wolfgang
Publisher: Midway Reprint
ISBN: 9780226905549
Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 327
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Author: Marvin Eugene Wolfgang
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Category : Juvenile delinquents
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Paul E. Tracy
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Category : Cohort analysis
Languages : en
Pages : 40
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Author: Paul E. Tracy
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Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Author: Paul E. Tracy
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Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: Robert M. Figlio
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Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: Robert M. Figlio
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Category : Juvenile delinquency
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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