Recent Results from the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

Abstract/Description

The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development is a prospective longitudinal survey of 411 South London males first studied at age eight in 1961. The Study was initially directed by Donald West, then David Farrington joined the Study in 1969 and took over as Director in 1982. Researchers are currently in the field conducting the age 70 follow-up of the original men (generation 2 / G2). Over the last sixty years, successive waves of data collection have been undertaken, as well as data collected about the children of study men; the third generation or G3.

The first paper in this panel capitalises on this intergenerational data to examine the concept of successful (offending without convictions) self-reported delinquency. In particular, it examines the intergenerational transmission of successful delinquency from the G2 to the G3. The second paper in the panel focuses specifically on convictions and provides a novel methodology for mapping the risk factor sequences across the life-course that lead to convictions. The final paper in this panel presents the latest data from the age 70 follow-up and most notably reports the self-reported offending of adults later in life and challenges current conceptualisations of desistence.

Sub Unit

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

Individual Presentations

• Intergenerational transmission of successful self-reported delinquency in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) - Henriette Bergstrøm, University of Derby; David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge; Darrick Jolliffe, Royal Holloway University of London

• Mapping the Developmental Sequences of Risk Factors Underlying Persistence in Crime - Miguel Basto-Pereira, William James Center for Research, Ispa-Instituto Universitário, Lisbon, Portugal; Darrick Jolliffe, Royal Holloway University of London; Lidón Villanueva, Developmental Psychology Department, Universitat Jaume I, Spain; David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge

• The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development: Follow-up at age 70 - Darrick Jolliffe, Royal Holloway University of London; David P. Farrington, University of Cambridge

Discussant

• Darrick Jolliffe, Royal Holloway University of London