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The natural history of offending and antisocial behavior can be studied with either longitudinal or cross-sectional data, a distinction first made in the 1920s (see Baltes 1968). Longitudinal data involve repeated measures of the same people, while cross-sectional data involve measures at one time only. For example, in a longitudinal study we might follow a sample of individuals from birth to age 25 with yearly data collection. Comparable cross-sectional data over the same age span would require 26 different samples of individuals, one group at each age from just after birth to age 25, all studied at the same time.
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Tonry, M., Ohlin, L.E., Farrington, D.P. (1991). Accelerated Longitudinal Design. In: Human Development and Criminal Behavior. Research in Criminology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9055-8_3
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