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After decades of rigorous study in the United States and across the Western world, a great deal is known about the early risk factors for offending. High impulsiveness, low attainment, criminal parents, parental conflict, and growing up in a deprived, high-crime neighborhood are among the most important factors. There is also a growing body of high quality scientific evidence on the effectiveness of early prevention programs designed to prevent children from embarking on a life of crime. Drawing on the latest evidence, Saving Children from a Life of Crime is the first book to assess the early causes of offending and what works best to prevent it. Preschool intellectual enrichment, child skills training, parent management training, and home visiting programs are among the most effective early prevention programs. Criminologists David Farrington and Brandon Welsh also outline a policy strategy--early prevention--that uses this current research knowledge and brings into sharper focus what America's national crime fighting priority ought to be. At a time when unacceptable crime levels in America, rising criminal justice costs, and a punitive crime policy have spurred a growing interest in the early prevention of delinquency, Farrington and Welsh here lay the groundwork for change with a comprehensive national prevention strategy to save children from a life of crime.

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• Foreword(p. v)
• 1 Introduction: The Need for Early Prevention(p. 3)
• Part I Early Risk and Protective Factors
• 2 Understanding Risk and Protective Factors(p. 17)
• 3 Individual Factors(p. 37)
• 4 Family Factors(p. 55)
• 5 Socioeconomic, Peer, School, and Community Factors(p. 77)
• Part II Prevention in the Early Years
• 6 Understanding Risk-Focused Prevention(p. 93)
• 7 Individual Prevention(p. 105)
• 8 Family Prevention(p. 121)
• 9 Peer, School, and Community Prevention(p. 137)
• Part III Toward a National Strategy
• 10 Never Too Early: A Comprehensive National Prevention Strategy(p. 159)
• Notes(p. 175)
• References(p. 181)
• Index(p. 223)

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Internationally recognized author Farrington (Cambridge) and US criminologist Welsh (Univ. of Massachusetts, Lowell) have applied a psychological theoretical perspective and "gold standard" experimental methodology to delinquency prevention programs. Their comparative review of intervention programs (primarily Cambridge, UK, and Pittsburgh, PA) evaluates effectiveness and how the results become the components of national strategies. They report on findings from other US and international programs, and specify risk factors associated with offending youth and adult behavior. Reducing the influence of risk factors will make youth less likely to become involved in youthful and adult crime. Risk factors reflect the "behavior control" conceptual approach dealing with antisocial acts. The social learning perspective is absent, and the authors give slight coverage to protective influences, which they find to have conceptual difficulties and little in valuable research findings. A three-part discussion reviews early risk and protective factors; offers critical review of prevention and intervention programs; and formulates a national strategy to reduce offending behaviors. The authors make only passing references to major recent studies that should be consulted with this report: Peter Greenwood, Changing Lives (CH, Jun'06, 43-6201); John Laub and Robert Sampson, Shared Beginnings, Divergent Lives (CH, Jul'04, 41-6858); and Bruce Western, Punishment and Inequality in America, (CH, Mar'07, 44-4178). Bibliography is extensive for this delinquency perspective. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. J. H. Larson emeritus, University of North Dakota

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David P. Farrington is Professor of Psychological Criminology in the Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University
Brandon C. Welsh is Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology, University of Massachusetts Lowell