Key Issues in Criminal Career Research: New Analyses of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development Book

Foreword   Charles F. Wellford     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Introduction     1
Overview of Criminal Careers     7
Overview of CSDD Data     38
How Do Prevalence and Individual Offending Frequency Vary with Age?     46
How Does Onset Age Relate to Individual Offending Frequency?     60
How Does Specialization/Versatility Vary with Age?     74
Comparing the Validity of Prospective, Retrospective, and Official Onset for Different Offending Categories     82
What Is the Role of Co-offenders, and How Does It Vary with Age?     97
Are Chronic Offenders Serious Offenders, and Does This Relationship Vary with Age?     123
Trajectories of Offending     139
Developing Estimates of Duration and Residual Career Length     175
A Summary and an Agenda for Future Research     199
References     218
Index     237