Six Reports on Transitions between Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime
Date:  09-16-2013

Bulletins offer research on patterns, predictions, explanations, effective strategies and prevention and intervention
Through the National Criminal Justice Reference Service, NIJ has made available a series of six final technical reports which describe findings from the National Institute of Justice Study Group on the Transitions between Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime.

The series presents the latest research findings and information about:

  • criminal career patterns

  • special categories of serious and violent offenders
  • explanations for offending

  • contextual influences

  • prediction and risk/needs assessments

    In addition, the series of bulletins considers legal boundaries between the U.S. juvenile and criminal justice systems, young offenders and an effective justice system response to young offenders, approaches to prevention and intervention, and research and policy recommendations.

    These reports are the result of an NIJ-funded project but were not published by the U.S. Department of Justice. See below for additional details:

    Title: Bulletin 1: From Juvenile Delinquency to Young Adult Offending (pdf, 39 pages) Authors: Rolf Loeber, David P. Farrington, David Petechuk. Click here to go to website.



    Title: Bulletin 2: Criminal Career Patterns (pdf, 34 pages)

    Authors: Alex R. Piquero, J. David Hawkins, Lila Kazemian, David Petechuk. Click here to go to website.

    Title: Bulletin 3: Explanations for Offending (pdf, 43 pages)

    Authors: Terence P. Thornberry, Peggy C. Giordano, Christopher Uggen, Mauri Matsuda, Ann S. Masten, Erik Bulten, Andrea G. Donker, David Petechuk. Click here to go to website.

    Title: Bulletin 4: Prediction and Risk/Needs Assessment (pdf, 45 pages)

    Authors: Robert D. Hoge, Gina Vincent, Laura Guy Click here to go to website.

    Title: Bulletin 5: Young Offenders and an Effective Response in the Juvenile and Adult Justice Systems: What Happens, What Should Happen, and What We Need to Know (pdf, 51 pages)

    Authors: James C. Howell, Barry C. Feld, Daniel P. Mears, David P. Farrington, Rolf Loeber, David Petechuk. Click here to go to website.

    Title: Bulletin 6: Changing Lives: Prevention and Intervention to Reduce Serious Offending (pdf, 56 pages)

    Authors: Brandon C. Welsh, Mark W. Lipsey, Frederick P. Rivara, J. David Hawkins, Steve Aos, Meghan E. Peel, David Petechuk Click here to go to website.