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Relations of Childhood and Adolescent Factors to Offending Trajectories of Young Men

Department of Psychology at UAB.

Deborah M. Capaldi, Ph.D.

Oregon Social Learning Center and the Principal Investigator of the Oregon Youth Study.

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.

Key Words: offending • trajectories • life span

Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Vol. 40, No. 3, 231-262 (2003)
DOI: 10.1177/0022427803253802


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