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As mentioned in Chap. 1, research on the prediction of convicted homicide offenders using prospective data is extraordinarily rare. In 2005, we published the first paper on the prospective prediction of convicted homicide offenders in a population sample (Loeber et al., 2005a). The analyses in this chapter differ from that paper in several major ways. First, the 2005 paper had a smaller number of homicide offenders, with four new cases having become evident since then. Second, the 2005 paper analyzed weighted data, reducing the number of convicted homicide offenders to only 23. Third, the prediction exercise in the 2005 paper consisted of a stepwise procedure starting with the prediction of violence followed by the prediction of homicide offenders among the violent youth.
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This construct was formerly called “one or no biological parents in home” (Loeber et al., 2008a).
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Farrington, D.P., Loeber, R. (2011). Early Risk Factors for Convicted Homicide Offenders and Homicide Arrestees. In: Young Homicide Offenders and Victims. Longitudinal Research in the Social and Behavioral Sciences: An Interdisciplinary Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9949-8_4
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