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Research on the criminal careers of subjects convicted for crimes has quite a long history. About one century ago Zebulon R. Brockway (1888) carried out what was probably the first followup study of a group of criminals released on parole. From the late twenties on (Burgess, 1928/29; Glueck and Glueck, 1930) the number of prediction studies in criminology has increased rapidly. In the past, many scholars have tried to develop instruments for early identification of delinquency-prone subjects (Glueck and Glueck 1950, 1959); to help decisionmakers in matters of parole (Glaser, 1962); or to develop base rates for studies in which the effectiveness of treatment programs or penal institutions is assessed (Mannheim and Wilkins, 1955). Unfortunately, many of these studies suffer from methodological shortcomings.
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Buikhuisen, W., Meijs, B.W.G.P. (1983). A Psychosocial Approach to Recidivism. In: Van Dusen, K.T., Mednick, S.A. (eds) Prospective Studies of Crime and Delinquency. Longitudinal Research in the Behavioral, Social and Medical Sciences, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-6672-7_7
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