Offending from Childhood to Young Adulthood: Recent Results from the Pittsburgh Youth Study

by Dustin A. Pardini, Rolf Loeber, Alex R. Piquero, et al.

Book Overview

This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants. The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in 1987, and involves repeated follow-ups on several community cohorts (starting in grades 1, 4, and 7) of inner-city boys in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319259652
• ISBN13: 9783319259659
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 74 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"