Long-term follow-up of criminal activity with adjudicated youth in Ontario: Identifying offence trajectories and predictors/ correlates of trajectory group membership

Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 377-413

  Day, David M ^a   Nielsen, Jason D ^b   Ward, Ashley K ^a   Sun, Ye ^c   Rosenthal, Jeffrey S ^d   Duchesne, Thierry ^e   Bevc, Irene ^f   Rossman, Lianne ^f  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c Pediatric Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^f Hincks Dellcrest Centre   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early intervention; Group based trajectory analysis; High rate chronic offenders; Juvenile offenders; Prevention; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868272019     PISSN: 17077753     EISSN: 19110219     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3138/cjccj.2011.E10     Document Type: Article

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