SOCI 2450 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Longitudinal Study
21 Apr 2016
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42 years: conducted interviews every year with them, their teachers, playmates. Criticism: expensive, data not available until years later. Children who are bullied at an early age develop mental illness at a later age (age 28) Those who witness bullying experienced the same effects. Prevalence of offending that is the number of persons involved in crime increases to a peak in the teen years and decreases in twenties. People who are convicted at the earliest age have the longest criminal careers. Behavioural problems in 1st grade predict serious offending up to adulthood: economic deprivation: factor for early prevention, if poor families are given more access to more social services and assistance, low intelligence: tied directly to disadvantaged families. Non verbal iq related to all other measures of attainment (jr school results, vocabulary: parental child rearing behaviour: best predictors of delinquency.
