SOCI 4410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Longitudinal Study, The Chronic, Impulsivity
24 Aug 2017
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Causes of crime don"t exist --> there are risk factors that enhance the probability that individuals will commit crime. Describe the development of criminal behaviour in urban males. To investigate how far o ending can be predicted in advance. To establish the relative importance of predictors of o ending. To study correlates of criminal behaviour at di erent ages. To investigate the e ect life events on the course of development of o ending. To investigate absolute and relative stability on anti-social behaviour over time. 411 south london males age 8-9 in 1961/1962 were attending 6 state schools. 44 year follow up study - longest longitudinal study in the world. Di culties of tracking people over a lifetime of criminal and anti-social behaviour. Parents were interviewed en the kids were 8-15. Rated by peers if they were troublesome or dishonest 8-10. Multiple data sources - including o cial records (up to age 40)
