Tracking the Development of Delinquency.
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Published
El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2009.
ISBN
9781593325756, 1593325754
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1 online resource (191 pages)
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Published
El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub. LLC, 2009.
Format
ONLINE
Language
English
ISBN
9781593325756, 1593325754
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-178) and index.
Description
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€s 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€s theory. Findings were mixed with respect to Moffittâ€s hypotheses about the development of delinquency and its causes and c.
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Digital Library - Digital Library Ebsco ebook | 364.36 | Available Online |
