Delinquency in a birth cohort

By M. Wolfgang, R. Figlio, J. T. Sellin. 1972

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Interpretable classification models for recidivism prediction (2015, background): “In the United States, for instance, a minority of individuals commit the majority of the crimes (Wolfgang 1987): these are the “power few” of Sherman (2007) on which we should focus our efforts.”
Beyond Stafford and Warr's Reconceptualization of Deterrence: Personal and Vicarious Experiences, Impulsivity, and Offending Behavior (2002, background): “Alhough a mixture of personal and vicarious experiences is certainly possible, there is likely to be considerable heterogeneity across individuals in their extent of prior offending (Wolfgang, Figlio, and Sellin 1972).”
Violence and Externalizing Behavior Among Youth in the United States (2014, background): “These include geographically bound birth cohort designs (e.g., Brame, Mazerolle, & Piquero, 2010; Wolfgang et al., 1972), too few extreme offenders (DeLisi, 2001; Piquero, Farrington, & Blumstein, 2007), and overreliance on enriched correctional samples and other research participants derived from…”
Investigating the Continuity of Sex Offending: Evidence from the Second Philadelphia Birth Cohort (2009, unknown): “A little more than half of the juveniles with any sex contacts had the five contacts that Wolfgang et al. (1972) regarded as the threshold for chronic offending, but very few of the police contacts among this group were for sex offenses.”