Pathways to Desistance

This project involves a longitudinal study of serious juvenile offenders and attempts to identify predictors of desistance.

Along with Ed Mulvey at Pittsburgh and Larry Steinberg at Temple and George Knight and Sandy Losoya at ASU, I am working on a longitudinal study of serious juvenile offenders, attempting to identify predictors of desistance. We are following 1200 adolescents in Arizona and Pennsylvania for a four year period. The data are intended to inform the policy debate about interventions and sanctions for serious juvenile offenders.

Dr. Laurie Chassin, Site Director

Laurie Chassin, Ph.D., George Knight, Ph.D., Sandy Losoya, Ph.D., Arizona State University
Ed Mulvey, Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh, and Larry Steinberg, Temple University
Funded by NIJ, OJJDP, WT Grant, and MacArthur Foundation, funding began fall, 2000