On the development of different kinds of criminal activity

Research has established that individuals who participate in one form of an tisocial behavior are at relatively high risk of participating in other for ms of antisocial behavior as well. In this article, the authors rely on rec ent methodological advances to study the longitudinal development of two di fferent forms of antisocial behavior: serious violent offenses and other of fenses. The results of their analysis of two Philadelphia birth cohorts sug gest that trajectories of offending differ more in degree than in kind and that relative standing in the distribution of violent offending is associat ed with relative standing in the distribution of other types of offending a ctivity