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This page intentionally left blank Early prevention of adult antisocial behaviour This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date summary of how adultcrime,antisocialbehaviourandantisocialpersonalitydisordercan bepreventedbyinterventionsappliedearlyinlife.Itreviewsimportant childhoodriskandprotectivefactorsfortheseadultoutcomes.Alterna- tivestrategiesofprimaryprevention(targetingthewholecommunity) andsecondaryprevention(targetingpersonsidentifiedashigh-risk)are alsodiscussed.Thebookalsocontainsextensiveinformationaboutpre- ventionprogrammesinpregnancyandinfancy,preschoolprogrammes, parent education and training programmes, and school programmes (including the prevention of bullying). There is special emphasis on preventingtheintergenerationaltransmissionofantisocialbehaviourby focusingonfamilyviolence,andaspecialreviewofwhetherriskfactors andpreventionprogrammeshavedifferenteffectsforfemalescompared tomales.Cost–benefitanalysesofearlypreventionprogrammesarealso reviewed,leadingtotheconclusionthatadultantisocialbehaviourcan bepreventedbotheffectivelyandcost-efficiently.  .  is Professor of Psychological Criminology at theInstituteofCriminology,CambridgeUniversity.Hehaspublished extensivelyoncriminologicalandpsychologicaltopicsincludingtwenty- eightbooksandmonographs,oneofwhich,UnderstandingandControl- ling Crime (1986), won the prize for distinguished scholarship of the AmericanSociologicalAssociationCriminologySection.  .  is Professor of Forensic Psychiatry at St Bartholomew’s and the Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary College, University of London. His area of research is epidemiology of antisocial and high risk behaviour, with a specialinterestinpersonalitydisorder.HeistheauthorofPsychopathic and Antisocial Personality Disorders: Treatment and Research Issues (with B.Dolan,1993). Cambridge Studies in Criminology Editedby AlfredBlumstein,H.JohnHeinzSchoolofPublicPolicyand Management,CarnegieMellonUniversity andDavidP.Farrington,InstituteofCriminology,UniversityofCambridge The Cambridge Studies in Criminology series aims to publish the highest quality research on criminology and criminal justice topics. Typical volumes report major quantitative, qualitative, and ethno- graphicresearch,ormakeasubstantialtheoreticalcontribution.There isaparticularemphasisonresearchmonographs,buteditedcollections may also be published if they make an unusually distinctive offering totheliterature.Allrelevantareasofcriminologyandcriminaljustice areincluded,forexample,thecausesofoffending,juvenilejustice,the developmentofoffenders,measurementandanalysisofcrime,victimi- sationresearch,policing,crimeprevention,sentencing,imprisonment, probation,andparole.Theseriesisglobalinoutlook,withanemphasis onworkthatiscomparativeorholdssignificantimplicationsfortheory orpolicy. Otherbooksintheseries LifeintheGang:Family,Friends,andViolence,byScottH.DeckerandBarrik VanWinkle DelinquencyandCrime:CurrentTheories,editedbyJ.DavidHawkins Recriminalizing Delinquency: Violent Juvenile Crime and Juvenile Justice Reform,bySimonI.Singer Mean Streets: Youth Crime and Homelessness, by John Hagan and Bill McCarthy TheFrameworkofJudicialSentencing:AStudyinLegalDecisionMaking,by AustinLovegrove TheCriminalRecidivismProcess,byEdwardZambleandVernonL.Quinsey ViolenceandChildhoodintheInnerCity,byJoanMcCord Judicial Policy Making and the Modern State: How the Courts Reformed America’sPrisons,byMalcolmM.FeeleyandEdwardL.Rubin SchoolsandDelinquency,byDeniseC.Gottfredson TheCrimeDropinAmerica,editedbyAlfredBlumsteinandJoelWallman Delinquent-ProneCommunities,byDonWeatherburnandBronwynLind White-Collar Crime and Criminal Careers, by David Weisburd and Elin Waring,withEllenF.Chayet Sex Differences in Antisocial Behaviour: Conduct Disorder, Delinquency, and Violence in the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, by Terrie Moffitt, Avshalom Caspi,MichaelRutter,andPhilA.Silva DelinquentNetworks:YouthCo-OffendinginStockholm,byJerzySarnecki Criminality and Violence among the Mentally Disordered: The Stockholm MetropolitanProject,bySheilaghHodginsandCarl-GunnarJanson Why Corporations Obey the Law: Assessing Criminalization and Cooperative ModelsofCrimeControl,bySallyS.Simpson Situational Prison Control: Crime Control in Correctional Institutions, by RichardWortley CompanionsinCrime,byMarkWarr TheCriminalCareer,byBrittaKyvsgaard Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective, by Terence P. Thornberryetal. Early Prevention of Adult Antisocial Behaviour Editedby David P. Farrington UniversityofCambridge Jeremy W. Coid StBartholomew’sandtheRoyalLondonSchoolofMedicineandDentistry           The Pitt Building, Trumpington Street, Cambridge, United Kingdom    The Edinburgh Building, Cambridge CB2 2RU, UK 40 West 20th Street, New York, NY 10011-4211, USA 477 Williamstown Road, Port Melbourne, VIC 3207, Australia Ruiz de Alarcón 13, 28014 Madrid, Spain Dock House, The Waterfront, Cape Town 8001, South Africa http://www.cambridge.org ©Cambridge University Press 2004 First published in printed format 2003 ISBN 0-511-03294-3 eBook (Adobe Reader) ISBN 0-521-65194-8 hardback Contents Listoffigures pageix Listoftables x Listofcontributors xi Preface xiii 1 Advancingknowledgeabouttheearlypreventionofadult 1 antisocialbehaviour  .  2 Formulatingstrategiesfortheprimarypreventionof 32 adultantisocialbehaviour:“Highrisk”or“population” strategies?  .  3 Riskfactorsforadultantisocialpersonality 79  ,  .    .  4 Preventingtheintergenerationalcontinuityofantisocial 109 behaviour:Implicationsofpartnerviolence  .     5 Protectivefactorsandresilience 130      6 Preventionduringpregnancy,infancyandthepreschool 205 years  .     7 Preventionthroughfamilyandparentingprogrammes 243   8 Preventionintheschoolyears 265 .     .  vii viii Contents 9 Preventionofantisocialbehaviourinfemales 292  - 10 Economiccostsandbenefitsofprimarypreventionof 318 delinquencyandlateroffending:Areviewoftheresearch  .  11 Conclusionsandthewayforward 356  .    .  Index 369

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