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5 - From the Occupied Netherlands to the Pittsburgh Longitudinal Studies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2021

By
Magda Stouthamer-Loeber  and
Rolf Loeber
Edited by
Richard E. Tremblay
Richard E. Tremblay
Affiliation:
Université de Montréal
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Summary

Rolf Loeber and Magda Stouthamer-Loeber were born in the Netherlands in 1942, met at Leiden University in 1967, and, from then on, worked and lived together until Rolf’s death half a century later. Their first faculty appointment was at the University of Pittsburgh in the United States, after having published seminal papers on the stability of antisocial behavior and the first meta-analysis of predictors of delinquency. The Loebers had major impacts on the science of violent behavior development and on the translation of this scientific knowledge into improved public policy. They pioneered the articulation and expansion of developmental and life-course criminology. They clarified the formulation of key concepts, and initiated as well as maintained two landmark longitudinal studies which started in childhood and continued with regular assessments into early adulthood: The Pittsburgh Youth Study (PYS) and The Pittsburgh Girls Study. The latter was the first major large-scale study in the United States on the development of female delinquency between childhood and early adulthood. The Loebers were the first to have the data to study youths who are at highest risk to commit homicide or become victims of homicide. They showed that the processes leading to homicide were often in place during late childhood.

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violencelife-course criminologypublic policydevelopmental criminologyPittsburgh Youth Study (PYS)Pittsburg Girls Studyfemale delinquencyhomicideage-crime curvesex differences
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The Science of Violent Behavior Development and Prevention
Contributions of the Second World War Generation
 , pp. 95 - 121
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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