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Initiation, Escalation and Desistance in Juvenile Offending and Their Correlates

1991; Northwestern University School of Law; Volume: 82; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/1143789

2160-0325

Pittsburgh Youth Study, Rolf Loeber, Magda Stouthamer‐Loeber, Welmoet van Kammen, David P. Farrington,

Psychopathy, Forensic Psychiatry, Sexual Offending

This paper presents the results of a two year follow-up of a community sample of boys who initially were in grades one, four, or seven (labeled the youngest, middle, and oldest samples, respectively).Initiation in offending was most marked for the youngest sample, escala-* Several of the measures used in this study were derived from our earlier work at the Oregon Social Learning Center.We are much indebted to the input from the staff there.In addition, several measures derive from other investigators in the Program on the Causes and Correlates of Delinquency (Terence