Evan C. McCuish is an assistant professor at Simon Fraser University and is the Principal Investigator of the Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study. He is the recipient of the Simon Fraser University Dean's Convocation Medal for Academic Excellence, the American Psychology-Law Society Outstanding Dissertation Award, and the American Society of Criminology Division of Developmental and Life-Course Criminology Early Career Award. His research interests include criminal careers, desistance, developmental criminology, foster care, gang involvement, psychopathy, sexual offending, and violence.

Patrick Lussier is a professor of criminology at the School of Social Work and Criminology at Université Laval, Canada. In 2005, Professor Lussier received the Academic Gold Medal from the Governor General of Canada for the excellence of his PhD dissertation. Since 2019, he is the Editor of the Canadian Journal of Criminology and Criminal Justice. His field of expertise is at the intersection of criminology and criminal justice and includes, among other things, the etiology of criminal conduct, sexual offending, risk assessment and management, and quantitative research methods.

Raymond Corrado is a professor in the School of Criminology at Simon Fraser University. He has published over 100 articles and book chapters on a variety of policy issues, including juvenile justice, violent young offenders, mental health, adolescent psychopathy, victimization, child/adolescent case management strategies, and terrorism.

Part I: Context

1. Historical Contexts and Perspectives on Offending over the Life-Course

2. The Search for Chronic Offending

3. The Incarcerated Serious and Violent Young Offender Study

Part II: Empirical Answers to Core DLC Questions

4. The Justice System Involvement of Incarcerated Youth: Old Questions, New Data

5. Capturing Trajectories Through the Justice System

6. The Development of Antisocial Behavior among Serious and Violent Youth

7. Psychopathy and the Propensity for Chronic and Persistent Offending

8. Desistance among Youth Involved in Serious and Violent Offenses

Part III: Reflections on the ISVYOS

9. The Differential Impact of Youth Justice Policy

10. Lessons Learned from Interviewing Incarcerated Youth

11. Conclusion

References

Index