Tracking the Development of Delinquency.
Material type: TextSeries: Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)Publication details: El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (191 pages)Content type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781593325756
- 1593325754
- 364.36
- HV9069
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In 1993 Terrie Moffitt offered a developmental taxonomy of delinquency that proposed three distinct types of juveniles: Life-course-persistent offenders, Adolescence-limited offenders, and Abstainers. Saunders tests both Moffittâ€s theory and the modeling methodologies and statistical software that have been used to test it. Saunders finds that group-based trajectory modeling technique is insufficient in capturing the hypothetical subpopulations specified by Moffittâ€s theory. Findings were mixed with respect to Moffittâ€s hypotheses about the development of delinquency and its causes and c.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-178) and index.
Introduction -- Moffitt's taxonomy -- A new approach -- Baltimore prevention program -- Measuring delinquency -- Developmental trajectories -- Which model fits best? -- Moffitt's predictors of group membership -- Comprehensively testing Moffitt's theory -- Discussion and conclusions.
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