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Age: The Edinburgh Study of Youth
Transitions and Crime was not concerned with identifying the childhood
origins of criminal offending. Instead it aimed to explain the pathways
young people take into and out of offending and why some criminal careers
end far sooner than others. For this reason the study has focused on people
in early adolescence and hopes to continue until around the age of 30.
Location:
The study focused on one whole year cohort of young people in the City of
Edinburgh.
Rather than
selecting a sample of young people every school in Edinburgh was asked to
participate. The
City of Edinburgh comprises enormous diversity, including all the extremes
of poverty, wealth, high and low crime areas and high and low areas of drug
abuse. There are also advantages of linking the Universities research with
the local community.
Further information on the characteristics of
the cohort can be found in chapter 2 of
The Edinburgh
Study of Youth Transitions and Crime: Key Findings at Ages 12 and 13. | 