Recent Results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

a) Objective: The current thematic panel presents recent results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD). b) Data: The CSDD is a prospective longitudinal study which was started in the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. The study followed 411 males (G2) from childhood to old age, and the study includes data on their parents (G1) and their biological offspring (G3). c) Results: The thematic panel includes three papers presenting results on intergenerational transmission of offending, of how personality is related to offending, and how psychopathic symptoms are related to official convictions. d) Conclusions/implications: the discussant will discuss implications for the field of developmental and life-course criminology.

Sub Unit

• Area II. Perspectives on Crime / 2. Developmental and Life Course Perspectives

Individual Presentations

• Intergenerational Continuities in Imprisonment: Findings from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development - Katherine M. Auty, University of Cambridge; Henriette Bergstrøm, University of Derby; David Farrington, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

• The Relationship Between the Five-Factor Model of Personality and Offending Across the Life-Course - Darrick Jolliffe, University of Greenwich; David Farrington, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

• Psychopathic Symptoms and Official Convictions in Men and Women: Results from Generation 3 of the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development - Henriette Bergstrøm, University of Derby; David Farrington, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge

Discussant

• David Farrington, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge