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Recently, when I was having dinner at a restaurant and having trouble selecting among the fruit tart, the chocolate mousse, and the cheese cake, the waiter suggested taking a little of each. His suggestion worked so well that I decided to try the same solution for this address to you. My talk will have a bite of new information about an old intervention program, a taste of data on how social contexts affect the age of first conviction, and a morsel of reflections about research on the etiology of crime.
The study on which this talk is based was partially supported by the U.S. Public Health Service research grant MH26779, National Institute of Mental Health (Center for Studies of Crime and Delinquency). I wish to express my appreciation to the Department of Probation of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Division of Criminal Justice Services of New York State, to the Maine State Bureau of Identification, and to the states of California, Florida, Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington for supplemental data about the men. I also thank Richard Parente, Robert Staib, Ellen Myers, and Ann Cronin for their work in tracing the men and their records and Joan Immel, Tom Smedile, Harriet Sayre, Mary Duell, Elise Goldman, Abby Brodkin, and Laura Otten for their careful coding. I am responsible for the statistical analyses and for the conclusions from this research.
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McCord, J. (1995). Crime in Moral And Social Contexts—The American Society Of Criminology, 1989 Presidential Address. In: McCord, J., Laub, J.H. (eds) Contemporary Masters in Criminology. The Plenum Series in Crime and Justice. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-9829-6_15
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