Jolliffe Darrick, Gaffney Hannah, Eisner Manuel, Farrington David P
Department of Law and Criminology, Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, UK.
School of Law and Criminology Ringgold Standard Institution, University of Greenwich, London, UK.
Crim Behav Ment Health. 2025 Apr;35(2):83-88. doi: 10.1002/cbm.2381. Epub 2025 Mar 23.
The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development (CSDD) is one of the most important prospective criminological longitudinal studies in the world. This now-famous study of 411 boys, followed up from age 8 (in 1961) to 48 with in-person social interviews and up to 61 in official records, has produced an immense range and depth of knowledge.
The aim of the current paper is to describe recent efforts that have been made to both secure the data available from the CSDD by digitising the historical paper records and to obtain new data by undertaking a new wave of data collection with the men at about age 70.
Both the archiving of paper records and the new interviews significantly expand the depth and range of research questions that the CSDD can address. A surprisingly high proportion of the selected samples of men interviewed at about age 70 self-reported an offence.
These new developments solidify the status of the CSDD, David Farrington's legacy, as a world-leading source of information about the development and maintenance of criminal and antisocial behaviour.
剑桥青少年犯罪发展研究(CSDD)是世界上最重要的前瞻性犯罪学纵向研究之一。这项现已闻名的研究跟踪了411名男孩,从1961年他们8岁开始,通过面对面的社会访谈进行随访,直至48岁,官方记录则随访至61岁,产生了广泛而深入的知识。
本文的目的是描述近期所做的努力,包括通过将历史纸质记录数字化来确保可从CSDD获取的数据,以及通过对约70岁的男性进行新一轮数据收集来获取新数据。
纸质记录的存档和新的访谈都显著扩展了CSDD能够解决的研究问题的深度和范围。在约70岁接受访谈的男性样本中,自我报告有犯罪行为的比例高得出奇。
这些新进展巩固了CSDD作为大卫·法林顿的遗产,作为关于犯罪和反社会行为的发展与维持的世界领先信息来源的地位。