Tracking the development of delinquency [[electronic resource] /] / Jessica M. Saunders

• Autore: Saunders Jessica M. <1978->
• Pubblicazione: El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., c2009
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.)
• Disciplina: 364.36
• Soggetto topico: Juvenile delinquency
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-178) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Moffitt's taxonomy -- A new approach -- Baltimore prevention program -- Measuring delinquency -- Developmental trajectories -- Which model fits best? -- Moffitt's predictors of group membership -- Comprehensively testing Moffitt's theory -- Discussion and conclusions.
• Sommario/riassunto: In 1993 Terrie Moffitt offered a developmental taxonomy of delinquency that proposed three distinct types of juveniles: Life-course-persistent offenders, Adolescence-limited offenders, and Abstainers. Saunders tests both Moffittâ€TMs theory and the modeling methodologies and statistical software that have been used to test it. Saunders finds that group-based trajectory modeling technique is insufficient in capturing the hypothetical subpopulations specified by Moffittâ€TMs theory. Findings were mixed with respect to Moffittâ€TMs hypotheses about the development of delinquency and its causes and c
• Titolo autorizzato: Tracking the development of delinquency
• ISBN: 1-59332-575-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456678903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)