Early prevention of adult antisocial behaviour / edited by David P. Farrington and Jeremy W. Coid.

A comprehensive and up-to-date overview of prevention programmes in pregnancy, infancy, pre-school, parent education and training and school programmes. It also focuses on family violence and whether risk factors and prevention programmes have different effects for females compared to males. Cost-be...

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Other Authors: Farrington, David P., Coid, Jeremy
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2003.
Series:Cambridge studies in criminology (Cambridge University Press)
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Table of Contents:
  • Advancing knowledge about the early prevention of adult antisocial behaviour / David P. Farrington
  • Formulating strategies for the primary prevention of adult antisocial behaviour : "high risk" or "population" strategies? / Jeremy W. Coid
  • Risk factors for adult antisocial personality / Rolf Loeber, Stephanie M. Green and Benjamin B. Lahey
  • Preventing the integenerational continuity of antisocial behaviour : implications of partner violence / Terrie E. Moffitt and Avshalom Caspi
  • Protective factors and resilience / Friedrich Lösel and Doris Bender
  • Prevention during pregnancy, infancy and the preschool years / Richard E. Tremblay and Christa Japel
  • Prevention through family and parenting programmes / David Utting
  • Prevention in the school years / J. David Hawkins and Todd I. Herrenkohl
  • Prevention of antisocial behaviour in females / Deborah Gorman-Smith
  • Economic costs and benefits of primary prevention of delinquency and later offending : a review of the research / Brandon C. Welsh
  • Conclusions and the way forward / David P. Farrington and Jeremy W. Coid.