{"title":"Letter to the Editor: Response to 'The Lifelong Impact of Bullying Behaviours on Crime Through David Farrington's Legacy'.","authors":"Ching-Heng Tsai, Lien-Chung Wei","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2387","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2387","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143990669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Personal Dedications to David P. Farrington","authors":"Maria Ttofi, Adrian Grounds, Keri Ka-Yee Wong","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2384","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2384","url":null,"abstract":"<p>David Farrington's death means a great loss to us personally, to the academic community and to the people he sought to understand. Donald West introduced him and their longitudinal study of Camberwell boys to one of us in the 1960s at the Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge. The study became <i>The Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development.</i></p><p>David's passion for the scientific study of the causes of crime already shone through and was very impressive. He never wavered in his enthusiasm nor in his dedication to that cohort study, despite branching out into more experimental work, including randomised controlled trials of interventions to ameliorate some of the problems so clearly recognised. The Camberwell/Cambridge study is among the most impressive in the world for its completeness at each follow-up stage and that was due to the care with which David forged a bond with the boys as they grew into men so that they felt like true participants in a journey of discovery. They then introduced him to their sons and grandsons such that the study became remarkable also for its intergenerational perspectives. It has produced a large number of papers and books—which should be a politician's guide to reducing the burden of crime but which has proved very difficult to get centre stage in spite of his many efforts to do this.</p><p>Through this work, David also linked to other longitudinal studies worldwide. We were always immensely grateful that, as a result, we had David to provide the foundation chapter in our textbook of forensic psychiatry for the main sections on understanding pathways into criminal behaviour. Only through such prospective study can we truly understand whether and how the many forms of experience and of mental disorder that may contribute to criminal behaviours actually do so.</p><p>No dry academic, David was always a good friend and a cheerful role model. Lunches in the delightful village of Granchester were both memorable and educational. He frequently warned against allowing bureaucracy to interfere with research, and he was proud of the fact that he never undertook any administration that might divert him from his research. How we still need his clear thinking on this. Perhaps universities would struggle less with their finances if this call were heard more clearly. Perhaps fewer researchers would find their grants at risk if ethics approval had not become such a tortuous process, extending way beyond independent ethics board consideration if any health component is included.</p><p>In the 1970s, we started planning a journal that would bring together the scientific aspects of forensic psychiatry, criminology and forensic psychology. With David, one of us (J.G.) approached several publishers. Only Wiley was at all interested but they insisted on production first of two or three yearbooks—to prove that there was a market for such, to them, abstruse activities. This we did in 1995, one on <i>Aggression and Dang","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"127-138"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbm.2384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143773669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Antisocial Behaviour, Mental Health and Crime Across the Life Span: Honouring David P. Farrington's Lifetime of Contribution to Knowledge (II)","authors":"Maria M. Ttofi, Adrian Grounds, Keri Ka-Yee Wong","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2385","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2385","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"73-75"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143755190","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Examining the Link Between Noncontributory Health Insurance and Crime.","authors":"Ümit Acar, Abdullah Tirgil","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2386","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/cbm.2386","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>New literature has emerged examining the relationship between government-funded healthcare or health insurance for low-income people and crime rates. Studies for developing countries have, however, not yet been conducted in this area. To fill this gap, we studied Türkiye's noncontributory health insurance scheme (Green Card) that provides a full range of health cover to people whose per capita household income is less than one-third of the minimum wage and contemporaneous crime rates.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To examine the relationship between government-funded health insurance for low-income people and crime rates in Türkiye.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We used monthly criminal records data, according to date, for the crime committed during the 12 years 2010-2021, inclusive, from the Ministry of Justice of Türkiye and Green Card health insurance holder data from the Social Security Institution of Türkiye for the same period. We merged the two databases and used a two-way fixed-effect ordinary least squares analysis to test for any relationship between health insurance and crime.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Our results indicate that a 10% increase in the Green Card health insurance rate is associated with significantly lower rates of assault, theft, damage to property and within-household ill-treatment crimes (1.4%, 0.8%, 1.5% and 4%, respectively).</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Our results indicate that government funding for healthcare for low-income people is associated with lower rates of various types of crime. Although this is consistent with findings in other countries with similar healthcare arrangements, it is the first time such a study has been conducted in a low- to middle-income country. Further study is needed to explore where the greatest health gains were made among those with this type of insurance and how any such improvements relate to lower crime rates.</p>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cumulative Risk as a Marker of Social Context","authors":"Kyle Treiber, Per-Olof H. Wikström","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2378","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2378","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper takes on ‘<i>Farrington's challenge</i>’ ‘to bridge the gap between risk factor research and more complex explanatory theories’ by offering an explanation for the unexplained statistical phenomenon of cumulative risk. We argue that cumulative risk primarily reflects the social contexts which crime relevant causal processes operate in and draw upon for their content and efficacy.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aims</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This paper tests if the immediate causes of crime according to Situational Action Theory (crime propensity and criminogenic exposure) can account for the relationship between cumulative risk (reflecting key features of family, neighbourhood, school and peer contexts) and crime involvement.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The paper uses data from the Peterborough Adolescent and Young Adult Development Study (PADS+) reflecting the social lives and criminal behaviour of a randomly sampled UK age cohort from ages 12 to 24 (2003–2016). Data used are drawn from parent and participant questionnaires, space–time budgets, community surveys, the UK Census and land use databases.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cumulative risk statistically accounts for 7% and 8% of the variance in crime prevalence and frequency, respectively, whereas crime propensity and criminogenic exposure account for 52% and 58%, respectively. Moreover, and importantly, measures of crime propensity and criminogenic exposure fully account for (statistically mediate) the association between cumulative risk and both crime prevalence and crime frequency.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Cumulative risk does not represent cumulative causation. The phenomenon of cumulative risk is best understood as representing the social context. Future research should focus on identifying features of social contexts that provide relevant content to and impact the efficacy of key action (and developmental) processes in crime causation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"106-114"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbm.2378","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143744241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Chelsey S. Narvey, Erin A. Orrick, Nhi Le, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Jennifer P. Rogers, Alex R. Piquero
{"title":"Assessing Variability in Offending Between Sex and Non-Sex Offenders Through Age 70","authors":"Chelsey S. Narvey, Erin A. Orrick, Nhi Le, Nicole Leeper Piquero, Jennifer P. Rogers, Alex R. Piquero","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2379","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2379","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The criminal career paradigm represented a fundamental shift within criminology as it drew attention to the longitudinal patterning of offending, with research findings leading to important new insights on matters related to theory, methods and policy.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aims</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study examines the longitudinal crime mix among sex and non-sex offenders.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Materials and Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Administrative data of over 43,000 individuals released from incarceration in the State of Texas through age 70 are used to examine crime mixture patterns.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Key findings show that: having a sex offence history significantly decreased the likelihood of arrest by age and that having a first arrest for a sex offence was associated with significantly lower odds of any subsequent arrest and violent non-sex offence arrests.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Discussion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The criminal career patterns of sex offenders are not more specialised, violent, nor frequent compared to non-sex offenders.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusion</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Theories and policy associated with sex offenders must take into account their lack of crime type specialisation.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"115-126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbm.2379","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143710456","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Darrick Jolliffe, Hannah Gaffney, Manuel Eisner, David P. Farrington
{"title":"Contemporary Developments in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development: David Farrington's Legacy","authors":"Darrick Jolliffe, Hannah Gaffney, Manuel Eisner, David P. Farrington","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2381","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2381","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>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.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aims</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>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.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>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.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>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.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"83-88"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbm.2381","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143694006","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Manuel Eisner, Denis Ribeaud, Laura Bechtiger, Aja Murray, Andrea Tam
{"title":"Childhood Risk Factors for Violent Ideations in Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood","authors":"Manuel Eisner, Denis Ribeaud, Laura Bechtiger, Aja Murray, Andrea Tam","doi":"10.1002/cbm.2382","DOIUrl":"10.1002/cbm.2382","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Background</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Violent ideations (VIs) refer to thoughts, daydreams or fantasies of killing, inflicting serious physical harm or humiliating another person. Violent ideations are of particular interest at the intersection between mental health and violent behaviour. However, little is currently known about developmental trajectories of violent ideations in adolescence and early adulthood, and the extent to which childhood risk factors predict the likelihood of violent ideations.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Aims</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study aims to address three key questions: (1) what are the developmental trends in violent thinking from ages 13 to 24, and how do they differ by sex? (2) To what extent can childhood risk factors predict VIs in late adolescence and early adulthood? (3) Are these associations sex-specific?</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Methods</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Data were collected from the z-proso cohort study that is an on-going population-based longitudinal cohort study of 1555 participants. We use participant, teacher and parent reports to examine the extent to which childhood trait aggressiveness, poor impulse control, social rejection, an adverse family environment and violent media consumption predict the likelihood of violent ideations.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Results</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Descriptive analyses show that VIs strongly decline from late adolescence to early adulthood. We also find substantial between-individual stability in VIs between ages 17, 20 and 24. Indicators of childhood aggressiveness, poor impulse control, social rejection, an adverse family environment and adult media consumption were found to consistently predict increased violent ideations among males. Among females, self-reported aggressive behaviour, aversive parenting and a poor teacher–child bond had relatively strong associations with VIs. Overall, childhood risk factors were more predictive of VIs among male study participants than among females.</p>\u0000 </section>\u0000 \u0000 <section>\u0000 \u0000 <h3> Conclusions</h3>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The propensity to experience VIs declines between ages 15 and 24. The experience of VIs during late adolescence to early adulthood had long-term associations with childhood risk factors indicative of general aggressiveness, low impulse control, social rejection, an adverse family context and violent media consumption. Most prospective associations were stronger for males than for females. This is consistent with the notion that a relatively stable violent","PeriodicalId":47362,"journal":{"name":"Criminal Behaviour and Mental Health","volume":"35 2","pages":"95-105"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1,"publicationDate":"2025-03-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/cbm.2382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143677321","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}