This Brief examines criminal careers by providing the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants. The PYS is a longitudinal study, which was initiated in 1987, and involves repeated follow-ups on several community cohorts (starting in grades 1, 4, and 7) of inner-city boys in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. This Brief covers the Youngest and Oldest PYS cohorts (which had the most follow-up and most data available) from ages 10-30. It provides the most complete descriptive analyses of the criminal careers of these males to date.

The three cohorts are commonly referred to as the Youngest, Middle, and Oldest cohorts, respectively. Consistent with several prior publications with the PYS data (Loeber et al., 2008), this book focuses only on data from the Youngest and Oldest cohorts as these cohorts were followedup the most frequently and have the longest time window of data available.

It will be of interest to researchers in Criminology and Criminal Justice, as well as related fields like Sociology, Developmental Psychology, Social Policy, and Education.

Provides the most extensive and comprehensive investigation to date on the offending of the Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) participants Details the official offending, self-reported offending, and trajectories of offending for the Youngest and Oldest PYS cohorts from ages 10-30 Explores developmental and life-course criminology

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David P. Farrington, O.B.E., is Emeritus Professor of Psychological Criminology at the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University. He has received the Stockholm Prize in Criminology and the four major awards (Sellin-Glueck, Sutherland, Vollmer, Bloch) of the American Society of Criminology. He is a Fellow of the British Academy, of the Academy of Medical Sciences, of the British Psychological Society, and of the American Society of Criminology. Alex R. Piquero is Professor of Sociology and Criminology and Arts and Sciences Distinguished Scholar at the University of Miami. He is currently serving as Director of the Bureau of Justice Statistics (effective August 2022). He has received several research, teaching, and service awards and is Fellow of both the American Society of Criminology and the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. Wesley G. Jennings is Gillespie Distinguished Scholar, Chair, Professor, and Director of the Center forEvidence-Based Policing and Reform (CEBPR) in the Department of Criminal Justice and Legal Studies in the School of Applied Sciences and a Faculty Affiliate at the School of Law at the University of Mississippi. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Society of Criminology, and a Lifetime Member of both the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Southern Criminal Justice Association. Darrick Jolliffe is Professor of Criminology and former Head of the School of Law and Criminology, University of Greenwich. He is Co-Editor-in Chief of the Journal of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology and on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Criminology and Victims and Offenders. He was an academic appointee to the Expert Panel of the Youth Endowment Fund.

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Introduction to Criminal Careers.- Official Criminal Careers.- Self-Reported Criminal Careers.- Trajectories of Offending to Age 30.- Conclusions.- Appendix.