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Background |
Large families, neglect, parental relationships, conflict and the style of parental discipline may have adverse effects upon the young, which may lead them to turn to crime. |
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Aim |
Farrington et al had 3 aims: 1. To document the start, duration and end of offending behaviour from childhood to adulthood in families. 2. To investigate influences of life events and family background 3. To identify the risk and factors predicting offending and antisocial behaviour |
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Design |
Longitudinal survey, which lasted for 40 years. Data was gathered via interviews with participants |
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Participants |
- 411 boys from six state school in South London - Mainly white working class boys - 40 years later 394 of the original sample was still alive, however only 365 were interviewed (sample attrition rate: 11.2%) |
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Results |
- At age 48, of 404 individuals searched in for a criminal record, 161 had convictions - If the boys committed crime between the ages 10-13, re offending rates were 9/10, with 91% having more than one conviction - Self report crime not convered by offical statistics, that is, they were not caught or never convicted, show that 93% of sample claimed to have committed at least one offence during their lives. - Positive correlation was found between those who have a convicted parent and the 'persisters'. |
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Conclusion |
Most important risk factors are: - Criminality of parents and family members - Poverty - Impulsiveness - Poor child rearing - Poor school performance Early prevention could not only reduce offences but also problems in accommodation, relationships, employment, aggressive behavior and alcohol and drug abuse |
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Evaluation |
- Longitudinal - useful because Farrington could see if children with a variety of family characteristics such as criminal parents would develop into criminals - Sample was large and subject attrition rate low, the sample was androcentric and ethnocentric - Validity - self report method and official statistics may not be the most apt way of studying crime. Ppt's may lie in self report and statistics may not show true figures (not all crime reported or recorded) - Temporal bias - boys were all born between 1953/54, results may not be replicable in the present day. |
