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Autore: | Saunders Jessica M. <1978-> |
Titolo: | Tracking the development of delinquency [[electronic resource] /] / Jessica M. Saunders |
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 |
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