Tracking the Development of Delinquency.

By:

Saunders, Jessica M

Material type: Text

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

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781593325756
1593325754

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tracking the Development of Delinquency.DDC classification:

364.36

LOC classification:

HV9069

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Contents:

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.

Summary: 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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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.