Farrington Flashcards
What did Farrington want to investigate in the study?
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
What did Farrington want to document in his study?
The start, duration and the end of offending behaviour from childhood to adulthood in families.
What are risk factors?
Those factors that make it more likely that criminal behaviour will occur
What are protective factors?
Those factors that will prevent criminal behaviour
What is Intergenerational transmission?
The occurrence of (criminal) behaviour through successive generations of the same family
How many participants took part?
411 boys
How old were the participants?
8-9 when registers were collected
48 when interviewed
Why was farringtons study classed as longitudinal?
Because he did the study on 48 year olds but used data from 40 years earlier
How many of the 404, 48 year olds had convictions?
161
At what age did the number of offenders and offences peak?
17 years
How many crimes on average did the participants who started their criminal career at 10-13 commit?
9
How many crimes on average did the participants who started their criminal career at 14-15 commit?
6
What percentage of participant committed crimes not covered by official statistics, committed one type of offence at some point in their lives
93%
What percentage of the males on the study were defined as chronic offenders
7%
What is defined as a chronic offender?
They accounted for half of all officially recorded offences in the study
What are persisters?
Participants convicted before and after their 21st birthday
What are dossiers?
Those who commit crime only up to age 20
What were persisters likely characteristics?
A convicted parent, high daring, a delinquent sibling, a young mother, low popularity, disrupted family, and a large family size.
What is the criteria of life?
A set of 9 criteria that are used to judge whether someone has successfully turned away from crime.
What are 4 out of 9 criteria of life?
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
What is considered a success in the criteria of life?
If they meet at least 6 out of the 9 criteria a of life
The percentage of men lead successful lives at 32 years old?
78%
The percentage of men lead successful lives at 48 years old?
88%
