Farrington - 2006

Question 1

Design

Answer 1

Longitudinal survey. Over 40 years

Question 2

Participants

Answer 2

411 boys; aged 8 and 9 from east London

Mainly working class families

397 diff families were involved. Aged 48,

365 were interviewed (93%)

Question 3

Procedure

Answer 3

Interviews with children, parents who (mainly mothers) and teachers

Data from the criminals records office were used to gain info on the convictions of boys, parents and siblings as well as later wives

Question 4

Results : General results

Answer 4

The no. Of offences and offenders peaked at 17 and 18

A small proportion of males (7%) defined as: chronic offenders, because they accounted for about half recorded offences

Chronic offenders shared a common childhood characteristics

Question 5

What were the shared common childhood characteristics for the chronic offenders

Answer 5

A convicted parent

A delinquent sibling

Young mothers

Disrupted family

Large family size

Question 6

Results: What were the family orientated findings

Answer 6

At the age of 20; 48% those with convicted fathers also had convicted, compared to 19% without convicted fathers

54% - with convicted mothers had convictions compared to 23% without

Worst offenders - large sized, multi problem families

Question 7

Conclusions

Answer 7

Offenders tends to be concentrated in families and appears to be transmitted from one generation to the next

Question 8

Aim

Answer 8

To investigate the influence of family orientated life events on the likelihood of criminal behaviour