RT Article
T1 Female Delinquents: the Effect of Offense Characteristics on Adult Criminal Careers in the 1958 Philadelphia Birth Cohort
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 42
IS 3
SP 610
OP 627
A1 Carkin, Danielle Marie
A2 Tracy, Paul E.
LA English
YR 2017
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764208625
AB This paper uses the official juvenile offenses among delinquent girls in the 1958 Philadelphia Birth Cohort to investigate the two overarching questions. This research investigates the nature of delinquency conduct, offense-by-offense, and its relationship to adult crime status. Although it is convenient to think of an offender’s delinquency career as a whole, such a career actually consists of one or more specific offenses, and offense conduct can be worth studying in its own right. Thus, it is necessary to determine whether the timing, type, severity, court disposition, and so on, of these juvenile offenses can be used to predict adult career pathways. An extensive review of the literature revealed that investigations of early offense conduct and its connection to adult crime are exceedingly scarce. This study indicates as follows. First, the way a delinquent begins her criminal career is predictive of the adult trajectory that will be followed. Second, we also found that aspects of the first few offenses doe influence whether delinquent girls do continue committing crimes as adult. The strongest predictor of adult crime status was juvenile court dispositions.
K1 Adult criminal careers
K1 Juvenile court dispositions
K1 Juvenile offense characteristics
K1 Onset of delinquency
DO 10.1007/s12103-016-9370-6