2876062
Farrington
- Aim: To document the start, duration and end of offending behaviour from childhood to adulthood in families
- Aim 2: To investigate the influence of life events on offending and the influence of family background
- Social
- 411 boys aged 8 and 9 in 1953/4 from 6 state schools in East London. At age 48, 365 were interviewed
- The number of offences and offenders peaked at age 17
- 93% had at least one offence at some point during their lives
- Most of the chronic offenders shared childhood
characteristics - convicted before age 21, convicted parent,
delinquent sibling, large family size
- Most of the chronic offenders shared childhood
characteristics - convicted before age 21, convicted parent,
delinquent sibling, large family size
- 93% had at least one offence at some point during their lives
- Early intervention programs for under 10s
could have a significant impact in reducing
offending
- Strengths
- Longitudinal
- Large sample
- Practical applications
- Longitudinal
- Weaknesses
- Ethnocentric
- Gender bias
- Subject attrition
- SDB/DC
- Unreplicable
- Ethnocentric
- Debates
- Nurture
- Deterministic
- Reductionist
- Situational
- Nurture
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