Low birth weight and the criminal career

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dc.contributor.advisorLaub, John Hen_US
dc.contributor.authorBoonstoppel, Sarah Lizabethen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCriminology and Criminal Justiceen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2005-10-11T09:56:42Z
dc.date.available2005-10-11T09:56:42Z
dc.date.issued2005-09-16en_US
dc.description.abstractThis thesis examines the relationship between low birth weight and crime over the life course. Recent research has explored low birth weight as a proxy measure for neuropsychological deficits that affect antisocial and delinquent behavior, but it is limited in scope with regard to the dimensions of the criminal career (e.g., onset, frequency, and persistence). This study uses data from the classic study of 500 delinquents and 500 nondelinquents and subsequent follow-ups conducted by Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck to examine low birth weight and the criminal career. Derived from multiple sources, these data contain information on offending from unofficial and official records spanning childhood, adolescence, and early adulthood. For this sample, low birth weight is not related to the dimensions of the criminal career examined here, nor is low birth weight related to offending in early adulthood. Implications for future research and policy are offered.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/2853
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledSociology, Criminology and Penologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledcriminal careeren_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlow birth weighten_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledGluecken_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledlife-course criminologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolleddevelopmental criminologyen_US
dc.titleLow birth weight and the criminal careeren_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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