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David P. Farrington
Researcher at University of Cambridge
Publications - 872
Citations - 70561
David P. Farrington is an academic researcher from University of Cambridge. The author has contributed to research in topics: Poison control & Juvenile delinquency. The author has an hindex of 136, co-authored 839 publications receiving 65241 citations. Previous affiliations of David P. Farrington include University of Minnesota & Queen Mary University of London.
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What works in anti-bullying programs? Analysis of effective intervention components.
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined the relationship between effectiveness estimates and specific elements of anti-bullying programs and found that the presence of a number of intervention components (e.g., whole-school approach, antibullying policies, classroom rules, information for parents, informal peer involvement, and work with victims) were significantly associated with larger effect sizes for school bullying perpetration outcomes.
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Research design influence on study outcomes in crime and justice: a partial replication with public area surveillance
Brandon C. Welsh,Meghan E. Peel,David P. Farrington,Henk Elffers,Anthony A. Braga,Anthony A. Braga +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out a partial replication of Weisburd et al. (2001) and found that stronger research designs are less likely to report desirable effects or, conversely, weaker research designs may be biased upward.
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Motivations for conduct disorder and delinquency
TL;DR: Motivational ideas in psychology and their relation to causes are reviewed in this paper, where the most common motivations reported are utilitarian (seeking money or material goods) and hedonistic (seeking excitement or pleasure).
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Value for money? A review of the costs and benefits of situational crime prevention
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a review of the costs and benefits of situational crime prevention, focusing on the economic value of the principal strategies and the benefits of these strategies in the United Kingdom and other countries.
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DIFFERENCES BETWEEN BRITISH AND AMERICAN CRIMINOLOGY An Analysis of Citations
TL;DR: This article used citation analysis as a way of investigating differences between British and American criminological research and concluded that the influence of British criminologists on their American counterparts will increase only to the extent that they are able and willing to carry out high quality quantitative research using sophisticated statistical methods.