INVITED EDITORIAL
Rolf Loeber’s Research and Life-Course Persistent Offenders
David P. Farrington,
Lia Ahonen,
Corresponding Author
David P. Farrington
Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
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David P. Farrington, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
Email: dpf1@cam.ac.uk
Search for more papers by this authorLia Ahonen
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Search for more papers by this authorDavid P. Farrington,
Lia Ahonen,
Corresponding Author
David P. Farrington
Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK
Correspondence
David P. Farrington, Institute of Criminology, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK.
Email: dpf1@cam.ac.uk
Search for more papers by this authorLia Ahonen
Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
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DATA AVAILABILITY STATEMENT
Data sharing is not applicable to this article as no new data were created or analysed in this study.
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