Katherine Teilmann Van Dusen and Sarnoff A. Mednick This
introduction delineates what we consider to be three of the most
important impediments to the advance of knowledge in the field of
criminology. The most fundamental need is for more studies of the
nature and progress of criminal and delinquent careers. The second
need is for more prospective, longitudinal studies of the etiology
of crime and delinquency. The third need concerns the lack of
interdisciplinary research toward a more integrated understanding
of delinquent and criminal behavior. Criminal and Delinquent
Careers The birth cohort study by Wolfgang, Figlio and Sellin
(1972) was heralded by many (Farrington, 1973; Erickson, 1973;
Weis, 1974) as a landmark which allowed researchers to study the
course of delinquency without the usual sampling biases that
plagued other, cross-sectional research. For the first time, we
could get a reasonable picture of when delinquency usually starts,
what proportion of the population engages in delinquency, what
types of delinquencies they engage in, what proportion continue,
and so on. Cross sectional studies do not permit the investigation
of careers because cross 1 PROSPECTIVE STUDIES OF CRIME AND
DELINQUENCY 2 sectional sampling includes only portions of careers
for many of the individuals sampled. This is just one of the many
problems that restricted researchers' ability to study the nature
of criminal careers.
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