Table of Contents

Foreword   Geoffrey Sayre-McCord     ix
Introduction   David P. Farrington     1
The Effects of Intervention
A Thirty-Year Follow-up of Treatment Effects     13
Consideration of Some Effects of a Counseling Program     22
The Cambridge-Somerville Study: A Pioneering Longitudinal-Experimental Study of Delinquency Prevention     32
Cures That Harm: Unanticipated Outcomes of Crime Prevention Programs     41
The Effects of Child Rearing
Some Child-Rearing Antecedents of Criminal Behavior in Adult Men     57
A Longitudinal View of the Relationship Between Paternal Absence and Crime     70
A Forty Year Perspective on Effects of Child Abuse and Neglect     85
Family Relationships, Juvenile Delinquency, and Adult Criminality     92
Punishment and Discipline
Questioning the Value of Punishment     111
Deterrence and the Light Touch of the Law     126
On Discipline     138
Discipline and the Use of Sanctions     144
Crime in the Family
Patterns of Deviance     155
The Cycle of Crime and Socialization Practices     162
Family Socialization and Antisocial Behavior: Searching for Causal Relationships in Longitudinal Research     177
Family as Crucible for Violence: Comment on Gorman-Smith etal. (1996)     188
Alcoholism and Drunk Driving
Drunken Drivers in Longitudinal Perspective     199
Alcoholism and Crime Across Generations     206
Identifying Developmental Paradigms Leading to Alcoholism     217
Another Time, Another Drug     227
Miscellany
Competence in Long-Term Perspective     243
Understanding Motivations: Considering Altruism and Aggression     256
Ethnicity, Acculturation, and Opportunities: A Study of Two Generations     270
Learning How to Learn and its Sequelae     281
Joan McCord's Publications     293
Index     303