Pathways to Serious Offending
Publication year:
2008
| Cataloged on:
Jun. 06, 2008
ANNOTATION: "This study use[s] a sample of male and female Canadian juvenile probationers followed into middle adulthood to explore the existence of distinctive criminal pathways and identify the early characteristics that predict the offending trajectories" (p. 6). These sections follow an executive summary: introduction; method; results according to temporal patterns of growth and offending trajectories, risk factors associated with offending trajectories, description of the optimal conditioned two-group growth mixture solution, and prediction to provincial and federal custodial admissions; and discussion. Group membership and substance use are the top two risk factors for high risk offenders.
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