This book—arguably the longest longitudinal study of age, crime, and the life course to date—
analyzes data on crime and social development up to age 70 for 500 men who were�…

Legacies of Crime explores the lives of seriously delinquent girls and boys in the United
States who were followed over a twenty-year period as they grew to adulthood. In-depth�…

This book uses historical data to directly address modern criminological debates. There is
currently a huge growth of interest in histories of crime, and intellectual conversations and�…

Although much is being published on the subject of juvenile delinquency, this volume of
selected British and American source material provides something new. It includes material�…

This volume describes a longitudinal birth cohort study of juvenile delinquency and adult
crime in a middle-sized Midwestern, urban area (Racine, WI) covering the years 1948�…

This study of male and female adolescent delinquency trajectories focuses on the prediction
of late adolescence delinquency, based on earlier delinquency and social support. In this 3�…

Analyzing the natural histories of two samples of boys that differ dramatically in childhood
delinquency, we test a model of crime and deviance over the life course. The first hypothesis�…

Abstract In 1972 Marvin E. Wolfgang, Robert M. Figlio, and Thorsten Sellin published their
groundbreaking work" Delinquency in a Birth Cohort," which traced the development from�…

This article examines conceptual issues relating to continuity and change in crime over the
life course. Building on past efforts, we first distinguish self‐selection from a cumulative�…

In recent years, the lifecourse perspective has become a popular theoretical orientation
toward crime. Yet despite its growing importance in the field of criminology, most textbooks�…