Who cares about a delinquency prevention experiment of Boston boys born in the 1920s and 1930s? The need for long‐term follow‐ups in criminology

Welsh, Brandon C.; Zimmerman, Gregory M.

doi:10.1002/cbm.1974

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“…Third, the record keeping was meticulous, a carryover from Joan's work on the 1956 follow-up (see McCord 1984). Although this has important implications for the ongoing 70-year follow-up of the CSYS (see Welsh & Zimmerman 2015), it speaks to the study's high level of descriptive validity.…”

Section: The 1975-1979 Evaluation Of the Cambridge-somerville Youth S...mentioning

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Crime and the Life-Course, Prevention, Experiments, and Truth Seeking: Joan McCord's Pioneering Contributions to Criminology

Tremblay

Welsh

Sayre-McCord

2019

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

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A life-span developmental approach describes Joan McCord's career and highlights her pioneering contributions to criminology and, more broadly, to understanding human development. The main focus of this article is on her exceptional scientific contributions through the assessment of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study experimental preventive intervention. We highlight her efforts to understand how a delinquency prevention intervention caused iatrogenic effects and the lessons she drew for evaluation research. Important contributions to key issues in developmental criminology are summarized, such as the different roles of mothers, fathers, and neighborhoods in the development of delinquency as well as the importance of differentiating discipline from punishment. We describe how Dr. McCord relied on philosophy, how she tackled oppositions between theory-driven and data-driven research in criminology, and how she helped young investigators learn how to learn, and we end by highlighting her contributions to the organization and development of criminology in the United States and around the world.

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Section: The 1975-1979 Evaluation Of the Cambridge-somerville Youth S...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Crime and the Life-Course, Prevention, Experiments, and Truth Seeking: Joan McCord's Pioneering Contributions to Criminology

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Welsh

Sayre-McCord

2019

Annu. Rev. Criminol.

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“…In addition to being small, it includes only one study of more than three generationsthe Transfive study (Bijleveld and Wijkman 2009). A three-and even a four-generation prospective study with self-report data or direct observation of early generations has not yet been accomplished, yet the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study makes this a real possibility (Welsh and Zimmerman 2015).…”

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Examining the Historical Developments and Contemporary Relevance of the Longitudinal–Experimental Design of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study: Utility for Research on Intergenerational Transmission of Offending

2016

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Founded in 1939, the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study represents the earliest longitudinal-experimental study in developmental crime prevention, combining the aims of understanding how the developmental process is related to future offending (i.e., longitudinal focus) as well as attempting to prevent offending through an experimental intervention during early adolescence. This article examines the historical context in which this novel design arose and provides a review of studies performed by Joan McCord based on her age-45 follow up of the study. The study made possible decades of research on developmental risk factors for delinquency and criminal offending. A central question that arises from McCord's body of research is how these risk factors are transmitted from parents to children. This article reviews extant research on the transmission of intergenerational offending, and discusses the potential of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study to contribute to this literature. Specifically, the prospective longitudinal design makes it possible to include the children of the study participants and investigate the intergenerational transmission of offending, while the longitudinal-experimental design allows for the investigation of the transmission of treatment effects. This potential research stands as a testament to the study's design and vision.

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The first delinquency prevention experiment: a socio-historical review of the origins of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study’s research design

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Who cares about a delinquency prevention experiment of Boston boys born in the 1920s and 1930s? The need for long‐term follow‐ups in criminology

Cited by 5 publications

References 15 publications

Crime and the Life-Course, Prevention, Experiments, and Truth Seeking: Joan McCord's Pioneering Contributions to Criminology

Crime and the Life-Course, Prevention, Experiments, and Truth Seeking: Joan McCord's Pioneering Contributions to Criminology

Examining the Historical Developments and Contemporary Relevance of the Longitudinal–Experimental Design of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study: Utility for Research on Intergenerational Transmission of Offending

The first delinquency prevention experiment: a socio-historical review of the origins of the Cambridge-Somerville Youth Study’s research design

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