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1 Introduction -- I Criminal Behavior -- 2 Delinquency in Two Birth Cohorts -- 3 Offending from 10 to 25 Years of Age -- 4 Genetic Influence in Criminal Behavior: Evidence from an Adoption Cohort -- 5 Social Class and Crime: Genetics and Environment -- 6 School and Family Origins of Delinquency: Comparisons by Sex -- 7 A Psychosocial Approach to Recidivism -- 8 Testing a General Theory of Deviant Behavior in Longitudinal Perspective -- 9 Delinquency among Metropolitan Boys: A Progress Report -- 10 Hyperactive Boys and Their Brothers at 21: Predictors of Aggressive and Antisocial Outcome -- II Violence and Psychopathy -- 11 Criminal Violence in a Birth Cohort -- 12 Criminal History of the Male Psychopath: Some Preliminary Data -- 13 Testosterone in the Development of Aggressive Antisocial Behavior in Adolescents -- 14 Violent Crime in a Birth Cohort: Copenhagen 1953–1977 -- 15 A Longitudinal Study of Aggression and Antisocial Behavior -- 16 Aggression and Criminality in a Longitudinal Perspective -- 17 Linear Causal Modeling of Adaptation and Criminal History in Sexual Offenses -- III Noncriminal Aggressive Behavior -- 18 Early Life Experiences that Relate to Later Aggression by Women -- 19 Familial Characteristics of Adolescents Vulnerable to Subsequent Antisocial Disorders -- Author Index -- Contributing Authors.

I Introduction: Longitudinal Research and Intervention -- 1 Problems with Traditional Strategies in Mental Health Research -- II Methodological Bases of Longitudinal Research: Design and Planning -- 2 Some Problems of Longitudinal Research in the Social Sciences -- 3 Epidemiological Considerations -- 4 Issues in Psychological Development -- III Methodological Bases of Longitudinal Research: Tools -- 5 Disease Registers -- 6 Genetics and Classification -- 7 Statistical Models for Longitudinal Studies -- 8 Biological Measurements in Longitudinal Research -- IV Examples of Longitudinal Research: Birth, School, and Clinical Cohorts -- 9 A Prospective Longitudinal Study of the Relationship between Obstetrical Factors and CNS Damage -- 10 Twelve-Year Follow-Up Status of Low Birthweight Infants -- 11 The Value of Birth Cohort Studies -- 12 Sequential Research with Special References to the Scandinavian Project Metropolitan -- 13 Some Methodology and Strategy Problems in Longitudinal Research -- 14 Psychiatric Epidemiological Studies in Iceland -- V Examples of Longitudinal Research: Populations at Risk -- 15 Children of Schizophrenic Mothers: The Danish High-Risk Study -- 16 The Mauritius Project -- VI Longitudinal Research: Implications and Recommendations -- 17 Longitudinal Research in the WHO European Region Program -- 18 The Contribution of Long-Term Research to Social Medicine -- 19 Some Recommendations for the Design and Conduct of Longitudinal Investigations -- References -- List of Contributors.

1 A Paean to the Follow-up -- I Follow-up Studies -- 2 Risks for Alcoholism by Age and Class among Males -- 3 Children of Alcoholic Fathers—A Longitudinal Prospective Study -- 4 The Longitudinal Course of Alcoholism among Women Criminals: A Six-Year Follow-up -- 5 Natural History of Male Alcoholism -- 6 Causal Models of Personality, Peer Culture Characteristics, Drug Use, and Criminal Behaviors over a Five-year Span -- II High-Risk Studies -- 7 Studies of Familial Alcoholism: A Growth Industry -- 8 A Danish Prospective Study of Young Males at High Risk for Alcoholism -- 9 A Prospective Study of Alcoholism: Electroencephalographic Findings -- 10 Prospective Markers for Alcoholism -- III Typological Studies -- 11 Subtyping Alcoholics by Coexisting Psychiatric Syndromes: Course, Family History, Outcome -- 12 Antisocial Behavior, Psychopathology, and Problem Drinking in the Natural History of Alcoholism.