Publication . Basto-Pereira, Miguel; Farrington, David
This article aims to describe the most prevalent, lifelong sequences of crime, to identify developmental
patterns of crime, and to evaluate the impact of childhood characteristics on each pathway.
Convictions up to age 56 in the Cambridge Study in Delinquent Development are analyzed. The
prevalence of the most frequent sequences of convictions is presented. Optimal matching dissimilarity
and partitioning around medoids analyses are conducted to identify types of sequences. The
most common sequences of convictions involve types of stealing. Four different types of sequences
are identified and are predicted using childhood characteristics. It is concluded that different types
of childhood vulnerabilities predict different types of conviction sequences.
