Farrington

Question 0

What did Farrington want to investigate in the study?

Answer 0

The influence of life events; the risk and protective factors predicting offending and anti social behaviour; the inter generational transmission of offending and antisocial behaviour and the influence of family background

Question 1

What did Farrington want to document in his study?

Answer 1

The start, duration and the end of offending behaviour from childhood to adulthood in families.

Question 2

What are risk factors?

Answer 2

Those factors that make it more likely that criminal behaviour will occur

Question 3

What are protective factors?

Answer 3

Those factors that will prevent criminal behaviour

Question 4

What is Intergenerational transmission?

Answer 4

The occurrence of (criminal) behaviour through successive generations of the same family

Question 5

How many participants took part?

Answer 5

411 boys

Question 6

How old were the participants?

Answer 6

8-9 when registers were collected

48 when interviewed

Question 7

Why was farringtons study classed as longitudinal?

Answer 7

Because he did the study on 48 year olds but used data from 40 years earlier

Question 8

How many of the 404, 48 year olds had convictions?

Answer 8

161

Question 9

At what age did the number of offenders and offences peak?

Answer 9

17 years

Question 10

How many crimes on average did the participants who started their criminal career at 10-13 commit?

Answer 10

9

Question 11

How many crimes on average did the participants who started their criminal career at 14-15 commit?

Answer 11

6

Question 12

What percentage of participant committed crimes not covered by official statistics, committed one type of offence at some point in their lives

Answer 12

93%

Question 13

What percentage of the males on the study were defined as chronic offenders

Answer 13

7%

Question 14

What is defined as a chronic offender?

Answer 14

They accounted for half of all officially recorded offences in the study

Question 15

What are persisters?

Answer 15

Participants convicted before and after their 21st birthday

Question 16

What are dossiers?

Answer 16

Those who commit crime only up to age 20

Question 17

What were persisters likely characteristics?

Answer 17

A convicted parent, high daring, a delinquent sibling, a young mother, low popularity, disrupted family, and a large family size.

Question 18

What is the criteria of life?

Answer 18

A set of 9 criteria that are used to judge whether someone has successfully turned away from crime.

Question 19

What are 4 out of 9 criteria of life?

Answer 19

No drug use in the past 5 years, no self-reported offence (of 6 specified) in the past 5 years, satisfactory mental health and no convictions in the last 5 years

Question 20

What is considered a success in the criteria of life?

Answer 20

If they meet at least 6 out of the 9 criteria a of life

Question 21

The percentage of men lead successful lives at 32 years old?

Answer 21

78%

Question 22

The percentage of men lead successful lives at 48 years old?

Answer 22

88%