In this volume, top experts in the field of delinquency discuss the implications of the findings of the Pittsburgh Youth Study for current conceptualizations of antisocial behavior. Violence and Serious Theft is unique in that it combines the strengths of three disciplines to explain delinquency in young people: developmental psychopathology, criminology, and public health. The book addresses questions in two main areas: serious offending as an outcome over time and developmental aspects of serious offending; and factors which explain why some young males become violent and/or commit serious crime while others do not. Violence and Serious Theft is a resource for researchers, practitioners and students in developmental, school and counseling psychology; psychopathology, psychiatry, public health and criminology.

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Preface

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Part I

Introduction and Methods

1 Introduction and Key Questions

ROLF LOEBER, DAVID P. FARRINGTON, MAGDA STOUTHAMER-

LOEBER, AND HELENE RASKIN WHITE

2 The Pittsburgh Youth Study: Its Design, Data Collection, and

Early Key Findings

ROLF LOEBER, MAGDA STOUTHAMER-LOEBER, AND DAVID P.

FARRINGTON

3 Measurement Instruments and Constructs

MAGDA STOUTHAMER-LOEBER AND REBECCA STALLINGS

Part II

"the Epidemiology of Violence, Serious "l-heft, Substance Use, Drug

Dealing, and Gang Membership

4 The Age-Crime Curve in Reported Offending

DAVID P. FARRINGTON, ROLF LOEBER, AND DARRICK JOLLIFFE

5 Comparing Arrests and Convictions with Reported Offending

ROLF LOEBER, DAVID P. FARRINGTON, AND DARRICK JOLLIFFE

6 Substance Use, Drug Dealing, Gang Membership, and Gun

Carrying and Their Predictive Associations with Serious

Violence and Serious Theft

HELENE RASKIN WHITE, ROLF LOEBER, AND DAVID E FARRINGTON

Part III

Prediction of Violence, Serious Theft, and Desistance

7 Promotive and Risk Processes at Different Life Stages

DAVID P. FARRINGTON, ROLF LOEBER, DARRICK JOLLIFFE, AND

DUSTIN A. PARDINI

8 Developmental Trajectories of Violence and Theft

ERIC LACOURSE, VERONIQUE DUPERE, AND ROLF LOEBER

9 Desistance from and Persistence in Offending

MAGDA STOUTHAMER-LOEBER, ROLF LOEBER, REBECCA

STALLINGS, AND ERIC LACOURSE

Part IV

Conclusions

10 Conclusions and Policy Implications

ROLF LOEBER, DAVID P. FARRINGTON, MAGDA STOUTHAMER-

LOEBER, AND HELENE RASKIN WHITE

Appendix: Publications from the Pittsburgh Youth Study

References

Index