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PhD Criminology University of Pennsylvania
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According to Wikipedia, Terence Patrick Thornberry is an American criminologist who has been a Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Maryland since 2012. Before he joined the faculty of the University of Maryland in 2009, he was a professor of sociology at the University of Colorado and the director of their Problem Behavior Program from 2004 to 2009. Before that, he was a professor at the University at Albany, SUNY from 1984 to 2001, and a Distinguished Professor there from 2001 to 2004. He served as the dean of the University at Albany, SUNY School of Criminal Justice from 1984 to 1988 and as director of the Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center there from 1997 to 2003. He is known for his research on delinquency, including the "interactional theory" he proposed in 1987 to explain its origins. This theory is based on Travis Hirschi's work on social bonding and Ronald Akers' work on social learning theory.

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Terence Thornberry's Published Works

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TOWARD AN INTERACTIONAL THEORY OF DELINQUENCY (1987) (840)
THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CHILDHOOD MALTREATMENT AND ADOLESCENT INVOLVEMENT IN DELINQUENCY (1995) (829)
A life course theory of cumulative disadvantage and the stability of delinquency. (1997) (799)
DELINQUENT PEERS, BELIEFS, AND DELINQUENT BEHAVIOR: A LONGITUDINAL TEST OF INTERACTIONAL THEORY* (1994) (775)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective (2002) (700)
The Role of Juvenile Gangs in Facilitating Delinquent Behavior (1993) (685)
The Self-Report Method for Measuring Delinquency and Crime (2000) (617)
School Disengagement as a Predictor of Dropout, Delinquency, and Problem Substance Use During Adolescence and Early Adulthood (2012) (553)
Taking stock of delinquency : an overview of findings from contemporary longitudinal studies (2003) (439)
From Boy to Man, from Delinquency to Crime (1988) (364)
Testing Interactional Theory: An Examination of Reciprocal Causal Relationships among Family, School, and Delinquency (1991) (362)
Linked Lives: The Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior (2003) (354)
Desistance as a Developmental Process: A Comparison of Static and Dynamic Approaches (2003) (305)
DEVELOPMENTAL ISSUES IN THE IMPACT OF CHILD MALTREATMENT ON LATER DELINQUENCY AND DRUG USE (2002) (294)
Membership in youth gangs and involvement in serious and violent offending. (1998) (289)
Adolescent maltreatment and its impact on young adult antisocial behavior. (2005) (279)
Developmental theories of crime and delinquency (1997) (272)
Does Maltreatment Beget Maltreatment? A Systematic Review of the Intergenerational Literature (2012) (252)
The causal impact of childhood-limited maltreatment and adolescent maltreatment on early adult adjustment. (2010) (242)
Explaining Multiple Patterns of Offending across the Life Course and across Generations (2005) (230)
THE EFFECT OF DROPPING OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL ON SUBSEQUENT CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR (1985) (230)
Unemployment and criminal involvement: an investigation of reciprocal causal structures. (1984) (218)
Risk factors for teenage fatherhood (1997) (192)
Peers, Drug Use, and Delinquency (1997) (184)
Race, Socioeconomic Status and Sentencing in the Juvenile Justice System (1973) (176)
Street Gang Violence in Europe (2006) (163)
Measurement in the Study of Class and Delinquency: Integrating Theory and Research (1994) (159)
Social Correlates of Criminal Involvement: Further Evidence on the Relationship Between Social Status and Criminal Behavior (1982) (151)
The causes and correlates studies: Findings and policy implications (2004) (150)
Resilient youth: identifying factors that prevent high-risk youth from engaging in delinquency and drug use (1995) (146)
Longitudinal study of delinquency, drug use, sexual activity, and pregnancy among children and youth in three cities. (1993) (141)
Self-esteem, delinquent peers, and delinquency : A test of the self-enhancement thesis* (1998) (135)
Developmental Outcomes for Children of Young Mothers (2006) (134)
Causes and Consequences of Delinquency (2003) (133)
Truancy and escalation of substance use during adolescence. (2010) (130)
Intergenerational Continuity in Maltreatment (2013) (127)
Reciprocal Causal Relationships among Drug Use, Peers, and Beliefs: A Five-Wave Panel Model (1996) (127)
The Development and Impact of Self-Report Measures of Crime and Delinquency (2010) (124)
Patterns of adolescent firearms ownership and use (1994) (123)
The Apple Doesn't Fall Far from the Tree (or Does It?): Intergenerational Patterns of Antisocial Behavior-The American Society of Criminology 2008 Sutherland Address. (2009) (118)
Longitudinal Perspectives on Adolescent Street Gangs (2008) (115)
THE CASCADING EFFECTS OF ADOLESCENT GANG INVOLVEMENT ACROSS THE LIFE COURSE (2011) (115)
The Development of Delinquency (2001) (110)
Intergenerational linkages in antisocial behaviour. (2009) (106)
Handbook of criminology (1974) (106)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Contents (2002) (105)
Intergenerational Continuities and Discontinuities in Intimate Partner Violence (2011) (105)
The Criminally Insane: A Community Follow-up of Mentally Ill Offenders (1979) (101)
Co-Occurrence of Delinquency and Other Problem Behaviors. Youth Development Series. Juvenile Justice Bulletin. (2000) (98)
The consequences of respondent attrition in panel studies: A simulation based on the Rochester youth development study (1993) (96)
Childhood maltreatment and antisocial behavior: comparison of self-reported and substantiated maltreatment. (2008) (92)
Breaking the cycle of maltreatment: the role of safe, stable, and nurturing relationships. (2013) (91)
Gang Membership, Delinquent Peers, and Delinquent Behavior (1998) (86)
In the Wake of Childhood Maltreatment (1997) (84)
Applying Interactional Theory to the Explanation of Continuity and Change in Antisocial Behavior (2017) (84)
The measurement of family process variables: The effect of adolescent and parent perceptions of family life on delinquent behavior (1992) (74)
Adolescent risk factors for child maltreatment. (2014) (73)
School Dropout, Delinquent Behavior, and Drug Use (1995) (72)
Network theory: a model for understanding drug abuse among African-American and Hispanic youth. (1993) (71)
Later Delinquency Careers (1970) (71)
Family Disruption and Delinquency (1999) (70)
A discrete-time survival analysis of the relationship between truancy and the onset of marijuana use. (2009) (67)
Prison labor and recidivism (1988) (66)
Urban Delinquency and Substance Abuse. Initial Findings. Research Summary. (1995) (65)
Gang Members and Delinquent Behavior. (1997) (61)
Gang membership transitions and its consequences: Exploring changes related to joining and leaving gangs in two countries (2015) (60)
Behavioral antecedents to serious and violent offending: Joint analyses from the Denver Youth Survey, Pittsburgh Youth Study and the Rochester Youth Development Study. (1999) (59)
THE DELINQUENCY OF CHILDREN BORN TO YOUNG MOTHERS: RESULTS FROM THE ROCHESTER YOUTH DEVELOPMENT STUDY* (2003) (59)
The Impact of Parental Stressors on the Intergenerational Transmission of Antisocial Behavior (2009) (58)
Under the Protective Bud the Bloom Awaits: A Review of Theory and Research on Adult-Onset and Late-Blooming Offenders (2013) (58)
Intergenerational Roots of Early Onset Substance use (2006) (56)
Explaining Systematic Bias in Self-Reported Measures: Factors that Affect the Under- and Over-Reporting of Self-Reported Arrests (2013) (55)
2 Causes and Consequences of Delinquency Findings from the Rochester Youth Development Study (53)
Sentencing Disparities in the Juvenile Justice System (1979) (52)
Impact of adolescent exposure to intimate partner violence on substance use in early adulthood. (2010) (50)
Long-Term Outcomes of Young Adults Exposed to Maltreatment (2013) (43)
Juvenile Justice Decision-Making as a Longitudinal Process (1984) (41)
Panel Effects and the Use of Self-Reported Measures of Delinquency in Longitudinal Studies (1989) (40)
Family Disruption and Delinquency. Juvenile Justice Bulletin. (1999) (39)
Reducing Crime Among Youth at Risk for Gang Involvement (2018) (39)
Population Frequencies of the Triallelic 5HTTLPR in Six Ethnicially Diverse Samples from North America, Southeast Asia, and Africa (2015) (37)
Highlights of Findings from the Rochester Youth Development Study (1999) (33)
Introduction to Special Section on Three-Generation Studies (2003) (32)
Retention of Minority Populations in Panel Studies of Drug Use (1998) (32)
Cultural literacy in criminology (1990) (32)
Recent findings from a program of research on the causes and correlates of delinquency (1995) (31)
Temporal Linkages in Violent and Nonviolent Criminal Activity (2005) (30)
VIOLENCE AMONG ADOLESCENTS LIVING IN PUBLIC HOUSING: A TWO‐SITE ANALYSIS* (2003) (30)
Behavioral antecedents to serious and violent juvenile offending: Joint analyses from the Denver Youth Survey. (1999) (29)
Three Generation Studies: Methodological Challenges and Promise (2016) (27)
Adolescent Risk for Intimate Partner Violence Perpetration (2015) (26)
Advantages of Longitudinal Research Designs in Studying Gang Behavior (2001) (26)
Scaling-Up Evidence-Based Programs Using a Public Funding Stream: a Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy for Court-Involved Youth (2018) (26)
The Relationship between Childhood Maltreatment and Adolescent Involvement in Delinquency. Working Paper No. 17. (1995) (24)
Gang Membership and Pathways to Maladaptive Parenting. (2014) (24)
Patterns of Illegal Gun Carrying Among Urban Males (2011) (23)
Key findings from the Rochester Intergenerational Study (2018) (22)
Constitutional Challenges to Prison Overcrowding: The Scientific Evidence of Harmful Effects (1983) (21)
Teenage Fatherhood and Delinquent Behavior. Juvenile Justice Bulletin. (2000) (20)
The Protective Effects of Intimate Partner Relationships on Depressive Symptomatology Among Adult Parents Maltreated as Children. (2015) (20)
The Effects of Parental Divorce on the Intergenerational Transmission of Crime (2015) (20)
Carrying Guns and Involvement in Crime (2002) (19)
Common Themes, Future Directions (2003) (19)
Intergenerational Consequences of Adolescent Substance Use: Patterns of Homotypic and Heterotypic Continuity (2017) (18)
Adolescent Maltreatment and Its Impact: Timing Matters. (2004) (17)
Race Socialization and Parenting Styles (2016) (17)
Replicated Findings and Future Directions for Intergenerational Studies: Closing Comments (2003) (17)
Explanations for offending (2012) (17)
The impact of adolescent risk behavior on partner relationships. (2016) (15)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: The Antecedents of Gang Membership (2002) (15)
The Effect of Childhood Conduct Problems on Early Onset Substance Use: An Examination of the Mediating and Moderating Roles of Parenting Styles (2018) (15)
The reproduction of child maltreatment: An examination of adolescent problem behavior, substance use, and precocious transitions in the link between victimization and perpetration (2019) (14)
Crime and delinquency: dimensions of deviance (1974) (13)
Neighborhood Context and Delinquency: A Longitudinal Analysis (1994) (13)
Bulletin 3: Explanations for Offending : Study Group on the Transitions between Juvenile Delinquency and Adult Crime (2013) (12)
The Development of Panel Studies of Delinquency (2003) (12)
Crime And Justice At The Millennium Essays By And In Honor Of Marvin E Wolfgang (2002) (11)
Definitional Elasticity in the Measurement of Intergenerational Continuity in Substance Use. (2018) (10)
Journal of Drug Issues (1980) (10)
The Self-Report Method and the Development of Criminological Theory (2017) (9)
Self-Report Surveys within Longitudinal Panel Designs (2012) (9)
Like Parent Like Child? The Role of Delayed Childrearing in Breaking the Link Between Parent’s Offending and Their Children’s Antisocial Behavior (2015) (7)
Explaining Adolescent Drug Use in Adjacent Generations (2016) (6)
Criminology index: Research and theory in criminology in the United States, 1945-1972 (1975) (5)
Interactional Theory (2018) (4)
Are Late Bloomers Real? Identification and Comparison of Late-Onset Offending Patterns from Ages 14–40 (2022) (4)
How Early Is Too Early? Identification of Elevated, Persistent Problem Behavior in Childhood (2019) (4)
Explaining Discontinuous Cross-Generational Patterns of Delinquency (2010) (3)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: The Origins of Gang Membership (2002) (3)
Reducing Gang Violence: A Randomized Trial of Functional Family Therapy (2018) (3)
Images of crime : offenders and victims (1975) (3)
Crime and Justice at the Millennium (2002) (3)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Gangs as a Facilitating Context for Delinquent Behavior (2002) (3)
In the Wake of Childhood (1997) (3)
Peer Network Composition and Gang Involvement (2008) (2)
Intergenerational Continuity and Discontinuity in Substance Use: the Role of Concurrent Parental Marijuana Use (2021) (2)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Appendix A: Delinquency Indices (2002) (2)
Explanations of Offending (2012) (2)
Teenage Fatherhood and Involvement in Delinquent Behavior. (2004) (2)
Intergenerational Patterns in Offending: Lessons from the Rochester Intergenerational Study—ASC Division of Developmental and Life Course Criminology David P. Farrington Lecture, 2019 (2020) (2)
Notes on Theory Construction and Theory Testing: A Response to Osgood and Lauritsen (2005) (2)
Population Frequencies of the Triallelic 5HTTLPR in Six Ethnicially Diverse Samples from North America, Southeast Asia, and Africa (2015) (1)
Review Article: The Once and Future Promise of the Rehabilitative Ideal (1976) (1)
Teaching forensic psychiatry. (1979) (1)
The Interplay of School Disengagement and Drug Use: An Interactional Perspective (2009) (1)
The Effects of Parenting and Peer Variables on Delinquency for Early and Late Onset Offenders (1998) (1)
Ex-Offenders in Community-Based Probation (1968) (1)
Predicting Desistance Using Measures of Onset (1998) (1)
Why Do the Buds Bloom? An Examination of Why Late Bloomers Begin to Offend (2011) (1)
The Joint Impact of Family and Community Structure on Violent Delinquency (2005) (1)
Family Disruption and Delinquency: (406762005-001) (2013) (1)
Erickson Could Never Have Imagined: Recent Extensions of Birth Cohort Studies (2016) (1)
Images of Crime: Offenders and Victims. (1975) (1)
Gang Membership, ellinquent Peers, and Delinquent Behavior (2011) (0)
Attachment to Teacher - Rochester Youth Development Study 1995 ; Copyrighted: Smith, C; Lizotte, A. J; ThornberryT.P.; Krohn, M. D. (2005) (0)
Mediating Pathways for Intergenerational Continuity in Intimate Partner Violence (2010) (0)
CCJS 610 Research Methods in Criminology and Criminal Justice Spring 2012 (2012) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Research Procedures: The Sample and the Data (2002) (0)
Self-Reported Delinquency - Rochester Youth Development Study 2003 ; Copyrighted: Thornberry, T. P.; Krohn, M. D.; Lizotte, A. J.; Smith, C. A.; Tobin, K. (2005) (0)
Examining the Link Between Exposure to Partner Violence and Antisocial Behavior in Adolescence and Adulthood (2008) (0)
Peer Reactions to Delinquency - Rochester Youth Development Study 1994 ; Copyrighted: Thornberry, T. P.; Lizotte, A. J.; Krohn, M. D.; Farnworth, M.; Jang, S. J. (2005) (0)
Intergenerational Continuity and Discontinuity in Substance Use: the Role of Concurrent Parental Marijuana Use (2021) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: References (2002) (0)
The Interface of the Criminal Justice and Mental Health Systems. (1980) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Long-Term Consequences of Gang Membership (2002) (0)
The interplay of family formation and criminal behavior (2012) (0)
Book Review (1981) (0)
Appendix B: Prevalence of Gang Membership (2002) (0)
Positive Parenting Practices - Rochester Youth Development Study 1992 ; Copyrighted: Thornberry, T. P.; Krohn, M. D.; Jang, S. J. ; Stern, S. B. (2005) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Gangs, Guns, and Crime (2002) (0)
School Disengagement as a Predictor of Dropout, Delinquency, and Problem Substance Use During Adolescence and Early Adulthood (2011) (0)
Equivalent Harm? The Relative Roles of Maltreatment and Domestic Violence Exposure in Violent Youth Outcomes (2009) (0)
Assessing Multiple Types of Family Violence Exposure and the Negative Behavioral Consequences in Adulthood (2011) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Gangs in Developmental Perspective: Substantive and Policy Implications (2002) (0)
Short and Long Term Effects of School Disengagement on Delinquency: A Longitudinal Study of Urban Youth (2010) (0)
Intergenerational Consistency of Parents and Children on Achenbach CBCL Behaviors (2012) (0)
Family Conflict and Hostility - Rochester Youth Development Study 2003 ; Copyrighted: Thornberry, T. P.; Krohn, M. D.; Lizotte, A. J.; Smith, C. A.; Tobin, K. (2005) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Appendix C: Impact of Gang Membership (2002) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Characteristics of Gang Members (2002) (0)
Does Academic Achievement in Early Adolescence Influence Timing of Parenthood?: (616822013-001) (2013) (0)
Parental-Child Attachment - Rochester Youth Development Study 1991 ; Copyrighted: Thornberry, T. P.; Lizotte, A. J.; Krohn, M. D.; Farnworth, M.; Jang, S. J. (2005) (0)
Temporal Linkages in Violent and Nonviolent 2 Criminal Activity 3 (2005) (0)
Assessing the Relationship Between Family Violence Exposure and Risky Sexual Behavior (2007) (0)
An Empirical Test of Link et al.’s Modified Labeling Theory (2010) (0)
Delinquent Peers - Rochester Youth Development Study 1994 ; Copyrighted: Thornberry, T. P.; Lizotte, A. J.; Krohn, M. D.; Farnworth, M.; Jang, S. J. (2005) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: Gangs and Other Law-Violating Youth Groups (2002) (0)
i 8 o % 3 Predicting Desistance Using Measures of Onset (0)
Neighborhood Disorganization - Rochester Youth Development Study 2003 ; Copyrighted: Thornberry, T. P.; Krohn, M. D.; Lizotte, A. J.; Smith, C. A.; Tobin, K. (2005) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: A Life-Course Orientation to the Study of Gang Membership (2002) (0)
Developmental risk factors for intimate partner violence (2012) (0)
Bulletin 3: Explanations for Offending (2013) (0)
Are Late Bloomers Real? Identification and Comparison of Late-Onset Offending Patterns from Ages 14–40 (2022) (0)
Frequent drug use and frequent involvement in delinquency significantly increase the likelihood of teenage fatherhood in the Rochester (2000) (0)
Applying Interactional Theory and Trajectory Modeling to Assortative Mating (2009) (0)
Differential Susceptibility to the Effects of Juvenile Street Gangs (2010) (0)
In Memoriam: Frank J. Cannavale 1942-1974 (1975) (0)
Intergenerational Continuity in Maltreatment (2012) (0)
Developmental Differences in Authoritarian and Authoritative Parenting Styles on Adolescent Delinquency for African-American and White Youth (2011) (0)
Residential stability among adolescents in public housing: a risk factor for delinquent and violent behaviour? (2006) (0)
Gangs and Delinquency in Developmental Perspective: About the Authors (2002) (0)
Commitment to School - Rochester Youth Development Study 1991 ; Copyrighted: Thornberry,T.; Lizotte, A.; Krohn, M.; Farnworth, M.; Jang, S. (2005) (0)

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