Book Review: 'Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective' by Terence P. Thornberry, Marvin D. Krohn, Alan J. Lizotte, Carolyn A. Smith, and Kimberly Tobin.

Reviewed by Joan Moore, Ph.D.
The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 10, Number 5, 2003, Pages 13-14

Abstract:

Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective reports on a longitudinal study of teenagers and their parents. The study started in 1988 and ended, after 12 waves of interviewing, in 1997. The young respondents were in the 7th and 8th grades when the research began, and all were residents of Rochester, New York. The book reviewer, Joan Moore, suggests that this book is not "for the casual reader" as there is "a lot of technical material." However she found the data and analyses compelling, and though technical it was not obscure.

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Resource Issue 2003

The Prevention Researcher,
Volume 10, Supplement, 2003

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