Young Homicide Offenders and Victims Risk Factors, Prediction, and Prevention from Childhood

Young Homicide Offenders and Victims: Risk Factors, Prediction, and Prevention from Childhood is essential reading for researchers,practitioners, and policy makers across the fields of juvenile justice and criminology, developmental psychology, sociology, psychiatry, public health, and policy making...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Loeber, Rolf, Farrington, David P. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer US 2011, 2011
Edition:1st ed. 2011
Series:Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword by Kathleen Heide
  • Foreword by Irvin Waller
  • Preface
  • Young Male Homicide Offenders and Victims: Current Knowledge, Beliefs, and Key Questions
  • The Pittsburgh Youth Study
  • Homicide, Offenders, and Victims in the United States, Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh, and the Pittsburgh Youth Study
  • Early Risk Factors for Convicted Homicide Offenders and Homicide Arrestees
  • Prediction of Homicide Offenders out of Violent boys
  • Early Risk Factors for Homicide Victims and Shooting Victims
  • Homicide Offenders Speak
  • Modeling the Impact of Preventive Interventions on the National Homicide Rate
  • Modeling the Impact of Interventions on Local Indicators of Offending, Victimization and Incarceration
  • Conclusions and Implications