Developmental Trajectories of Violence and e

For a long time research on typologies of delinquents was either based on preconceived notions with little empirical support (e.g., Lombroso, 1912) or was derived from cross-sectional data only (Clinard & Quinney, 1973; Roebuck, 1966). Delinquent types based on cross-sectional data have many disadvantages in that they fail to capture changes in oending that take place with age, and that dierentially aect some youth more than others (Gibbons,...