In: Studies of Psychosocial Risk. The Power of Longitudinal Data 1988; 77-95
I. Kolvin, F.J.W. Miller, M. Fleeting and P.A. Kolvin, "Risk/protective factors for offending with particular reference to deprivation, pp. 77-95, in Michael Rutter (ed.), Studies of Psychosocial Risk. The Power of Longitudinal Data, (Cambridge University Press, 1988).
In this chapter we describe the use of longitudinal data to explore early risk and protective factors for later offending. This theme had its origins in observations arising from other research that many youths from 'high-risk' backgrounds do not become delinquent and a small proportion of youths from 'low-risk' backgrounds do. We sought to highlight factors that allowed us to discriminate between such youths.