In:
Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, SAGE Publications, Vol. 40, No. 3 ( 2003-08), p. 231-262
Abstract:
Previous research has emphasized the importance of heterogeneity in offense trajectories. Using data from the Oregon Youth Study, a longitudinal study of at-risk boys interviewed annually from ages 9 to 10 years to ages 23 to 24 years, this study examined childhood and adolescent covariates of observed offending trajectory classes. Six trajectory classes were identified using the latent growth mixture modeling approach: chronic high-level, chronic low-level, decreasing high-level, decreasing low-level, rare, and nonoffenders. Multinomial logistic regressions revealed that nonoffenders, rare offenders, and chronic high-level offenders were distinguished by individual, family, and peer factors measured in childhood and adolescence. Only adolescent covariates (deviant peers, various problem behaviors) distinguished among trajectories of adolescents who engaged in substantive amounts of offending behavior. Overall, there was more specificity than commonality in correlates of distinctive offending trajectories.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
0022-4278
,
1552-731X
DOI:
10.1177/0022427803253802
Language:
English
Publisher:
SAGE Publications
Publication Date:
2003
detail.hit.zdb_id:
2011523-4
SSG:
2
SSG:
2,1
SSG:
5,2
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